The Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen Richards

Justice Sir Stephen Richards was called to the Bar of England and Wales (Gray’s Inn) in 1975. He was appointed as a High Court Judge of the High Court of England and Wales in 1997. He was the Presiding Judge for Wales between 2000 and 2003. He was appointed as a Lord Justice of Appeal in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales in 2005. He was Deputy Head of Civil Justice between 2013 and 2015.

Before he became a Judge, he was the First Junior Treasury Counsel between 1992 and 1997, a distinguished legal appointment known as the ‘Treasury Devil’. He was the Standing Counsel to the Director General of Fair Trading (the UK competition authority at that time) between 1987 and 1991. He has specialist expertise in competition law and regulatory law. He is an Honorary Fellow of St. John’s College at Oxford University.

He was educated at St. John’s College, Oxford University, where he read Literae Humaniores (Classics) and graduated in 1972, and he read Jurisprudence and graduated with a BA in 1974 and an MA in 1977.