Andrew Nicol (judge)

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The Hon. Mr Justice Nicol
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High Court Judge
In office
2009–2021
Personal details
Born (1951-05-09) 9 May 1951 (age 70)
Alma materSelwyn College, Cambridge
Harvard Law School

Sir Andrew George Lindsay Nicol (born 9 May 1951), is a retired judge of the High Court of England and Wales.

He was educated at City of London Freemen's School, Selwyn College, Cambridge, and Harvard Law School (LLM).[1]

He was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1978 and became a bencher there in 2004.[2] He was made a QC in 1995, deputy judge of the High Court from 2003 to 2009, and judge of the High Court of Justice (Queen's Bench Division) since 2009.

He co-wrote Media Law with Geoffrey Robertson.[3][4]

Controversial cases[]

Mr David Sellu[]

Justice Nicol was the judge in the trial of consultant surgeon David Sellu in November 2013. Sellu was found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter following the death of a patient under his care. He served 15 months imprisonment of a 30-month sentence.[5] After release Sellu's appeal against the conviction was successful in 2016.[6] The successful ground for the appeal was that Justice Nicol had failed to instruct the jury properly regarding the grossness element of the offence.[6][7] The jury had returned to court before reaching their verdict seeking further guidance, which was not forthcoming from Justice Nicol.[8][better source needed]

Personal life[]

He is married to Camilla Palmer QC, and has two sons.[4]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ ‘NICOL, Hon. Sir Andrew (George Lindsay)’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014
  2. ^ "Middle Temple Masters of the Bench - The Hon Mr Justice Andrew Nicol". The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  3. ^ Cohen, Nick. "Secret justice will lead to paranoia – and it's not very British". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
  4. ^ a b Robertson, Geoffrey; Nicol, Andrew (2002). Media Law (4th ed.). Penguin Books. p. ii. ISBN 9780140247695.
  5. ^ Moorhead, Joanna (16 June 2019). "'They look for a scapegoat': a surgeon's battle to clear his name". The Observer. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  6. ^ a b Dyer, Clare (2016). "Senior surgeon's conviction for manslaughter is quashed". BMJ. 355: i6178. doi:10.1136/bmj.i6178. PMID 27852571. S2CID 206912960.
  7. ^ Darbishire, Adrian (2016). "Poor, bad and truly atrocious: Directing the jury on gross negligence manslaughter". The Justice Gap. Archived from the original on 1 February 2018. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  8. ^ Sellu, David. "Mistake or manslaughter? - RSM Videos". Videos.rsm.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 5 September 2018. Retrieved 8 September 2018.


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