Sir Stephen Edmund Phillips (born 10 October 1961), styled The Rt Hon Lord Justice Stephen Phillips, is a judge of the Court of Appeal having previously served as a judge of the High Court of England and Wales.
He was educated at The King's School, Chester, and University College, Oxford.‘PHILLIPS, Hon. Sir Stephen Edmund’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014
He was called to the bar by Gray's Inn in 1984 and became a bencher there in 2006. He was made a QC in 2002, served as a deputy judge of the High Court from 2008 to 2013, and was appointed a judge of the High Court of Justice (Queen's Bench Division) in 2013, receiving the customary knighthood in the 2014 Special Honours. He was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal on 13 January 2020 and sworn in as a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.
On 1 August 1998, at St Mark's Church in Worsley, Lancashire Phillips married Sonia Tolaney KC, a barrister of Middle Temple and One Essex Court. She is 13 years his junior. Her parents were GPs in Lancashire and she has a sister called Sapna. They have two children.
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