1. Robert Jay's parents were Professor Barrie Samuel Jay, a consultant surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital, and Marcelle Ruby Jay, nee Byre, a geneticist.
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Robert Jay was educated at King's College School, a private fee paying school for boys in Wimbledon in South West London.
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Robert Jay won an Open Scholarship to New College, Oxford, where he obtained a first in jurisprudence.
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Robert Jay was a contemporary of the later actor and film star Hugh Grant.
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Robert Jay undertook pupillage with Simon D Brown.
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Robert Jay was called to the Bar at Middle Temple in 1981.
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Robert Jay was a recorder from 2000 to 2013 and was approved to sit as a deputy High Court judge.
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Robert Jay was counsel to the Leveson Inquiry into phone-hacking and media ethics, when he came to public attention due to televising and other reporting.
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In June 2020, the UK Supreme Court went further and found that Robert Jay had "harassed and intimidated [the claimant] in ways which surely would never have occurred if the claimant had been represented".
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Robert Jay is hearing cases as member of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission.
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Robert Jay is interested in history, art, classical music, and is keen on chess, cookery, golf, and cycling.
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Robert Jay and his wife Deborah, who is an author, have a daughter.