Robert Miles (judge)
{{Short description|British judge}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Mr Justice Miles
| image = Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (Tudor crown).svg
| office = Justice of the High Court
| caption = Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom
| monarch = Elizabeth II
| nationality = British
| honorific_prefix = The Honourable
| termstart = 2020
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1962|11|29|df=yes}}
| image_size = 130px
| birth_place =
| office2 = Lord Justice of Appeal
}}
Sir Robert John Miles, styled Mr Justice Miles, is a British High Court Judge.
Personal life and education
Miles was born on the 29th of November 1962, later studying philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford University before obtaining a Diploma in Law at City University and returning to Oxford University to take the Bachelor of Civil Law.{{Cite web |date=2020-08-07 |title=High Court Judges 2019 {{!}} Judicial Appointments Commission |url=https://www.judicialappointments.gov.uk/high-court-judges-2019 |access-date=2022-09-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807044211/https://www.judicialappointments.gov.uk/high-court-judges-2019 |archive-date=7 August 2020 }}{{Cite web |title=Miles, Hon. Sir Robert John, (born 29 Nov. 1962), a Judge of the High Court, Chancery Division, since 2020 |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-42877 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2022-09-30 |website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO |language=en |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U42877|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4 }}
In 1999, Miles married Lisabel Mary Macdonald.
Career
Called to the Bar in 1987, Miles practised from Chambers at 4 Stone Buildings, in Lincoln's Inn, specialising in commercial and financial law and civil fraud, often with a foreign element. He was appointed as King's Counsel in 2002 and as a Deputy High Court Judge in 2006. From June 2012 he served as Attorney-General of the Duchy of Lancaster.{{Cite web |title=Duchy council |url=https://www.duchyoflancaster.co.uk/about-the-duchy/our-people/the-duchy-council/ |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200616025732/https://www.duchyoflancaster.co.uk/about-the-duchy/our-people/the-duchy-council/ |archive-date=2020-06-16 |website=theduchycouncil}}
On 21 April 2020 he was appointed as a Justice of the High Court{{Cite web |title=CrownOffice |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/3554362 |website=crownoffice}} and on 16 March 2022 he received the customary knighthood.{{Cite web |title=CENTRAL CHANCERY OF THE ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD {{!}} Honours and Awards {{!}} The Gazette |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/4051909 |access-date=2022-09-30 |website=www.thegazette.co.uk}} Miles has also co-edited Oxford University Press’s Annotated Companies Legislation.{{Cite book |url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/annotated-companies-legislation-9780199677696?cc=gb&lang=en& |title=Annotated Companies Legislation |date=2013-05-02 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-967769-6 |edition=3rd |location=Oxford, New York}}
References
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