Kim Lewison

{{Short description|British judge}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = [[The Right Honourable]] | name = Lord Justice Lewison | image = Sir Kim Lewison 2014.jpg | office = [[Lord Justice of Appeal]] | term_start = 4 October 2011 | monarch = [[Elizabeth II]]<br />[[Charles III]] | office2 = [[High Court judge (England and Wales)|High Court judge]]<br>Chancery Division | term_start2 = 29 April 2003 | term_end2 = 3 October 2011 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|5|1|df=y}} | alma_mater = [[Downing College, Cambridge]] | occupation = Barrister, judge | profession = Lawyer | birth_name = Kim Martin Jordan Lewison }}

'''Sir Kim Martin Jordan Lewison''', [[Privy Council (United Kingdom)|PC]] (born 1 May 1952), styled '''The Rt Hon. Lord Justice Lewison''', is a [[Lord Justice of Appeal]]. He is a graduate of [[Downing College, Cambridge]], where he is an [[honorary Fellow]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/32899/Kim-Martin-Jordan-Lewison-LEWISON |title=The Rt Hon the Lord Justice Lewison Authorised Biography {{!}} Debrett's People of Today |website=www.debretts.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401023308/http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/32899/Kim-Martin-Jordan-Lewison-LEWISON |archive-date=2016-04-01}}</ref>

==Early life and education==

Lewison was born on 1 May 1952 to Anthony Frederick Lewison and [[Dinora Pines|Dinora Lewison]] (née Pines).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/about-the-judiciary/judges-magistrates-and-tribunal-judges/list-of-members-of-the-judiciary/senior-judiciary-list |title=Senior Judiciary |publisher=www.judiciary.gov.uk |access-date=1 July 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120803031806/http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/about-the-judiciary/judges-magistrates-and-tribunal-judges/list-of-members-of-the-judiciary/senior-judiciary-list |archive-date=3 August 2012 }}</ref><ref name="Who's Who 2017">{{cite web|title=LEWISON, Rt Hon. Sir Kim (Martin Jordan)|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U24496|website=Who's Who 2017|publisher=Oxford University Press|access-date=4 April 2017|date=November 2016}}</ref> He was educated at [[St Paul's School, London|St Paul's School]], an all-boys [[Private schools in the United Kingdom|private school]] in [[London]].<ref name="Who's Who 2017" /> He studied at [[Downing College, Cambridge]].<ref name="Who's Who 2017" />

==Legal career==

Lewison was [[called to the bar]] ([[Lincoln's Inn]]) in 1975 and has been a Bencher since 2003. He became a [[Queen's Counsel]] in 1991. He was appointed an Assistant Recorder in 1994 and a Recorder in 1997. In 2000, he was appointed a Deputy High Court Judge. He was appointed to the [[High Court of Justice]] on 29 April 2003<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=56924 |page=5453 |date=2 May 2003}}</ref> and assigned to the [[High Court of Justice#Chancery Division|Chancery Division]], receiving the customary [[knight bachelor|knighthood]].

The following year, he was appointed to the [[Competition Appeal Tribunal]]. Lewison served as Chancery Supervising Judge from 2007 to 2009. On 3 October 2011, he was appointed a [[Lord Justice of Appeal]],<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=59931 |page=19091 |date=6 October 2011}}</ref> and received the customary appointment to the [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|Privy Council]].

==References== {{Reflist|30em}} {{Appeal judges in England & Wales}} {{Authority control}}

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