Andrew Baker

{{Short description|British judge}} {{about||other people named Andrew Baker|Andrew Baker (disambiguation)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = [[The Honourable]] | name = Mr Justice Andrew Baker | honorific_suffix = | image = Sir Andrew Baker 2022.jpg | caption = Baker in 2022 | office = [[High Court judge (England and Wales)|Justice of the High Court]] | term_start = 1 November 2016 | term_end = | monarch = [[Elizabeth II]]<br>[[Charles III]] | predecessor = | successor = | office2 = | term_start2 = | term_end2 = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1965|12|21|df=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | birth_name = | spouse = | alma_mater = [[Merton College, Oxford]] | occupation = | profession = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}

'''Sir Andrew William Baker''' (born 21 December 1965), styled '''The Hon. Mr Justice Andrew Baker''', is a [[High Court judge (England and Wales)|judge of the High Court of England and Wales]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2022-03-14 |title=Mr Justice Andrew Baker |url=https://www.judiciary.uk/guidance-and-resources/mr-justice-andrew-baker/ |access-date=2022-10-31 |website=Courts and Tribunals Judiciary |language=en-US}}</ref> He is currently Judge in Charge of the [[Admiralty court|Admiralty Court]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Other roles held by Senior Members of the Judiciary |url=https://www.judiciary.uk/about-the-judiciary/who-are-the-judiciary/senior-judiciary-list/other-roles-senior-judiciary/ |access-date=2022-10-31 |website=Courts and Tribunals Judiciary |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Biography == He was educated at [[Lenzie Academy]], read mathematics at [[Merton College, Oxford]], and completed a postgraduate diploma in law at [[City, University of London]].<ref>‘BAKER, Andrew William’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017</ref><ref name=":0" />

He was called to the bar at [[Lincoln's Inn]] in 1988. He was made a judge of the [[High Court of Justice]] ([[King's Bench Division]]) in 2016 and invested a knight in the [[2016 Special Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=2666969|page=1105|date=16 December 2016}}</ref> He is correctly described as Mr Justice Andrew Baker, distinguishing him from other judges, including [[Jeremy Baker]], with the same surname.

In April 2021, he dismissed a billion-dollar lawsuit against British financier [[Sanjay Shah]] and several other people. The Danish Tax Agency raised the case in 2018.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ft.com/content/84e19602-708f-4d91-adcb-bdf76cff3107|title=Danish tax authority loses High Court 'cum-ex' case|newspaper=Financial Times|date=27 April 2021|last1=Croft|first1=Jane}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}} {{Queen's Bench Division of England & Wales}} {{authority control}}

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