Philip Moor

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The Hon. Mr Justice Moor
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High Court Judge
Assumed office
2011
Personal details
Born (1959-07-15) 15 July 1959 (age 62)
Alma materPembroke College, Oxford

Sir Philip Drury Moor (born 15 July 1959), styled The Hon. Mr Justice Moor, is a judge of the High Court of England and Wales.

Biography[]

Born on July 15, 1959, Moor began their aspirations in law. He studied at Pembroke College, Oxford in 1978 and has worked in the Bar Association since 1982.[1]

Moor became a member of the Queen's Counsel in 2001 and the High Court of Justice of England and Wales in 2002.

In 2004, he was appointed Chairman of the Family Law Bar Association. Since October 2011, he worked in the Family Affairs Department of the High Court. During this period he became a judge and was awarded the Knightly Order.

Career[]

As a judge, he participated in a number of high-profile trials, including:

  • The divorce of British entrepreneur Scot Young from his wife Michelle Young. This litigation extended from the paperwork filed in 2006 into 2014 at the passing of Scot Young. Michelle Young was awarded £26 million by Judge Moore's decision.[2] These divorce proceedings were documented as the longest in British history.[3]
  • The divorce of Russian businessman Arkady Rotenberg from his second wife, Natalia. In Moor’s decision, he ordered Arkady Rotenberg to transfer the ownership of Ribsden Manor to his ex-wife Natalia; a property located near the village of Bagshot in the Surrey Heath borough of Surrey, England, worth $36.2 million. Moor’s decision was appealed by Arkady Rotenberg to the Court of Appeals for England and Wales. According to Rotenberg's lawyers, the manor never belonged to Rotenberg.[4][5] Subsequently, the hearings in the case, chaired by Judge Moor, resumed. In regards to the secrecy and declassification, the names of the parties in the Rothenberg divorce proceedings became widely known. In September 2016, the British newspaper Times filed a lawsuit in the High Court of Justice in London demanding to name the names of a major foreign businessman and his ex-wife, individuals that were involved in lengthy legal proceedings or financial matters related to this case. July 25, 2017, the court decided to disclose the details of the financial agreements between Arkady and Natalia Rotenberg. In response to this, Rotenberg appealed to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom with a request that would allow him to keep the details of the agreement secret.[6] In February 2018, the Supreme Court ruled to declassify the divorce proceedings between both parties.[7]
  • In 2020, Moor decided to award £400,000 to a woman for “sacrificing her career as a solicitor for the sake of her marriage”. Moor’s decision factored in that the woman could become a successful partner in a law firm.[8]

As a judge, Moor, filed a pension-related lawsuit against the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, having been excluded from pension payments after the reform of the system in 2015.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ ‘MOOR, Hon. Sir Philip Drury’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014
  2. ^ Major accountancy firm writes 'extraordinary' letter to High Court judge presiding over high-profile divorce case
  3. ^ Tycoon Scot Young’s millions still missing four years after fatal plunge
  4. ^ Vladimir Putin’s judo partner fights his ex-wife to keep £28m mansion
  5. ^ Russian billionaire Arkady Rotenberg says 'Putin Palace' is his
  6. ^ Secrecy battle: How British courts protected Putin’s ally from the public eye
  7. ^ Vladimir Putin’s judo partner fights his ex-wife to keep £28m mansion
  8. ^ Wife awarded £400k for sacrificing her solicitor career
  9. ^ See you in court: judges prepare to sue lord chancellor
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