Richard Field (judge)

Sir Richard Alan Field (born 17 April 1947) is a British judge of the High Court of England and Wales.

Academic career[]

Education: Ottershaw School, Univ of Bristol (LLB), LSE (LLM).^[1]

Field was an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law from 1969 until becoming a lecturer at the University of Hong Kong in 1971. He served as an associate professor at the McGill University Faculty of Law in Montreal from 1973 to 1977.

Legal career[]

Field was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1977 and later made a bencher. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1987. Field was appointed a Recorder in 1999.^[2] On 11 January 2002, he was appointed a High Court judge,^[3] receiving the customary knighthood, and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division. He served as presiding judge of the Western Circuit from 2009 to 2012. He retired on 31 August 2014.^[4] He has since sat on a number of occasions as a Deputy High Court Judge in the Commercial Court.^[5]

Field was Cheng Yu Tung Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong between 2014 and 2015.^[6]

Field currently acts as an arbitrator. He also sits part-time as a Deputy Judge of the High Court of Hong Kong^[7][8][9] (where he is given a Chinese name "范堯輝" by the Hong Kong Judiciary), a Justice of Appeal of the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal and a Justice of the DIFC Courts.^[6]

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