Stanley Burnton
Sir Stanley Jeffrey Burnton (born 25 October 1942) is a British lawyer and former Lord Justice of Appeal.
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Early life
Burnton was educated at Hackney Downs Grammar School. He studied jurisprudence at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and graduated from the University of Oxford 1964 with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree.[1]
Legal career
Burnton was called to the bar (Middle Temple) in 1965 and was made a Bencher in 1991. He was appointed as Queen's Counsel in 1982, and was a Recorder from 1994 to 2000.[2]
Burnton was appointed a High Court judge on 19 July 2000,[3] receiving the customary knighthood, and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division. He was promoted, being named a Lord Justice of Appeal on 21 April 2008.[4]
On 4 November 2015, Burnton was appointed as the as Interception of Communications Commissioner.[5]
Honours
Burnton is an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.[6][1]
References
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