11 Facts About Christopher Butcher

Sir Christopher John Butcher styled The Hon Mr Justice Butcher, is a British High Court Judge.

Christopher Butcher was educated at Charterhouse and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read Modern History.

Christopher Butcher was elected a Prize Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1983.

Christopher Butcher married Fiona Gaskin in 1992, with whom he had two children.

Christopher Butcher is Chairperson of the Oxford based charity, The Radcliffe Trust.

Christopher Butcher would go on to become a Bencher for Gray's Inn in 2005, a Recorder in 2009, and a Deputy High Court Judge in 2013.

Christopher Butcher has been a Judge of the High Court of Justice since 2018, he received the customary knighthood in 2019 form the late Queen Elizabeth II.

Alongside hearing High Court cases, Christopher Butcher is authorised to sit in the Competition Appeal Tribunal and Administrative court.

Christopher Butcher was awarded the Eldon Law Scholarship by the University of Oxford in 1987.

Christopher Butcher achieved Chambers and Partners' Insurance Silk of the Year in 2008 and 2014.

Christopher Butcher was awarded a PhD by King's College London in 2019 for his thesis on Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd.