David Foxton
Lord Justice Foxton | |
|---|---|
Foxton in 2022 | |
| Justice of the High Court | |
| Assumed office 13 January 2020 | |
| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Lord Justice of Appeal | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 October 1965 |
| Alma mater | King's College London Magdalen College, Oxford |
Sir David Andrew Foxton styled The Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Foxton,(born 14 October 1965)[1] is a British Lord Justice of Appeal.
Education
Foxton was educated at Glasgow Academy. He took a first-class BA in jurisprudence and BCL from Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1986 and 1987 respectively. He was an Eldon Scholar in 1989 and completed a PhD at King's College London in 2001.[2][1][3][4]
Career
He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1989. He established a practice in commercial law, based at Essex Court Chambers from 1989 to 2020.[2] He took silk in 2006. In addition to practice, he wrote several books. He was editor, with Sir Bernard Eder, of Scrutton on Charterparties and Bills of Lading from 2008 to 2015. He wrote Revolutionary Lawyers: Sinn Fein and Crown Courts in Britain and Ireland 1916–1923 in 2008 and The Life of T. E. Scrutton, concerning the former Lord Justice of Appeal Thomas Edward Scrutton, in 2013.
He has been a visiting professor of law at the University of Nottingham since 2007. He was appointed Freeman of the City of London in 2007.
He was head of chambers at Essex Court Chambers from 2017 to 2020.[1]
Judicial career
He served as a recorder from 2009 to 2020 and a deputy High Court judge from 2016 to 2020.
On 13 January 2020, he was appointed a judge of the High Court and received the customary knighthood in the same year. He was assigned to the Queen's Bench Division and appointed to the Commercial Court.[2] He is on the Financial List, hears cases on the Competition Appeal Tribunal and sits on the Administrative Court.[5] He was formerly Judge in Charge of the Commercial Court.[6]
On 15 January 2026, he was appointed Lord Justice of Appeal.[7][8]
Some decisions of Lord Justice Foxton
In 2023, Lord Justice David Foxton as a judge of the High Court, considered a civil case against one of Russian largest companies, PhosAgro, and its major owners, including Russian oligarch Andrey Guryev, who was sanctioned by the UK and other countries in relation to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine due to his (Andrey Guryev's) closeness to Putin. Andrey Guryev owns the second largest palace after Buckingham Palace in the UK (Witanhurst), valued at 350 million pounds.
The plaintiff is Russian refugee Igor Sychev, who has been living in Europe since 2016, due to repeated attempts on his life committed in a generally dangerous way in Russia.
Igor Sychev is a victim in a criminal case opened in June 2023 by the London police in connection with information about Andrey Guryev's ordering his murder by poisoning in connection with this lawsuit.
Lord Justice Foxton made a decision (case CL-2016-000831), in which he wrote that the plaintiff’s words that he is a victim in two criminal cases are “totally without merits.” This decision has actually terminated the lawsuit against PhosAgro and its owners without consideration on the merits.
Personal life
In 1992, he married Heather Crook, with whom he has two sons and two daughters.[1]
References
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- ^ a b c "Mr Justice Foxton". Judiciary UK. 14 March 2020. Archived from the original on 9 April 2022. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
- ^ "David Foxton QC" (PDF). Arbitrators International. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 June 2023. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
- ^ "Eldon Scholarship Award Holders since 1919". Oxford Law Faculty. 16 September 2015. Archived from the original on 9 December 2017. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
- ^ "Mr Justice Foxton". Judicial Careers. 15 March 2022. Archived from the original on 22 May 2022. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
- ^ "The Commercial Court's Judges". Courts and Tribunals Judiciary. Archived from the original on 28 October 2022. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
- ^ "Appointment of Lord and Lady Justices of Appeal: June 2025". gov.uk. 26 June 2025. Retrieved 13 March 2026.
- ^ "Lord and Lady Justices of Appeal". Courts and Tribunals Judiciary. Retrieved 13 March 2026.