Nigel Teare

{{Short description|British High Court judge (born 1952)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Sir Nigel Teare | honorific_suffix = | image = Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom (St. Edward's Crown).svg | image_size = 100px | caption = <small>Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom</small> | office = Justice of the High Court | term_start = 2006 | term_end = 2020 | monarch = | predecessor = | successor = | office2 = | term_start2 = | term_end2 = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|1|8|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | birth_name = | spouse = {{marriage|Elizabeth Pentecost|1975}} | alma_mater = St Peter's College, Oxford | occupation = Judge | profession = Barrister | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Sir Nigel John Martin Teare''' (born 8 January 1952), is a retired judge of the High Court of England and Wales. He was Admiralty Judge and Judge in charge of the Commercial Court.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Mr Justice Teare|url=https://www.judiciary.uk/publications/mr-justice-teare/|access-date=2020-09-22|website=www.judiciary.uk|language=en-US}}</ref>

== Early life and education == He was born to Eric and Mary Teare. He was educated at King William's College. From there, he studied at St Peter's College, Oxford.<ref name=":0">‘TEARE, Hon. Sir Nigel (John Martin)’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014</ref> He received a BA in 1973 and an MA in 1975. He was later elected an Honorary Fellow at the College in 2010.

== Career == He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1974. He was made a QC in 1991, recorder from 1997 to 2006. He was made a judge of the High Court of Justice (Queen's Bench Division) since 2006. In 2006, he received the customary knighthood. In 2011 he was appointed the Admiralty Judge, in charge of the Admiralty Court and judge in charge of the Commercial Court list from October 2017.<ref name=":1" /> Between 2013 and 2016, he was Presiding Judge of the Western Circuit.<ref name=":0" />

In 2009, Teare presided over the "extraordinary case" of fraud and embezzlement amounting to $6 billion by Mukhtar Ablyazov; the largest case of financial fraud in history.<ref name="EWHC">{{cite web |title=[2010] EWHC 1779 (Comm) |url=https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Comm/2010/1779.html}}</ref>

In 2004, he was made a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn.<ref name=":1" />

He retired on October 1, 2020.<ref>[https://www.judiciary.uk/announcements/high-court-retirement-of-the-honourable-sir-nigel-john-martin-teare/ High Court: Retirement of The Honourable Sir Nigel John Martin Teare]</ref>

== Personal life == He married Elizabeth Pentecost in 1975; they have two sons and a daughter.<ref name=":0" />

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