Stephen Sedley  returns to Cloisters.

18 May 2011

Stephen Sedley – Former Lord Justice Sedley -  has retired from the bench and returned to his old chambers Cloisters.

Before becoming a High Court Judge in 1992 and a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1999 Sir Stephen was a barrister for 28 years. He specialised in public law and discrimination.

He has been awarded honorary doctorates by eight British universities, is an honorary professor of law at Warwick and Cardiff Universities and has since 2000 been president of the British Institute of Human Rights. He writes in legal periodicals and for the London Review of Books. A collection of his essays, Ashes and Sparks, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011.

Sir Stephen has become an associate tenant at Cloisters where he will continue to write and speak about the law and to undertake adjudications and mediations.