# Sarah Asplin

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British judge (born 1959)

The Right Honourable Lady Justice Asplin DBE Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom Lady Justice of Appeal Incumbent Assumed office 2017 Justice of the High Court In office 2012–2017 Personal details Born (1959-09-16) 16 September 1959 (age 66) United Kingdom Alma mater Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge

**Dame Sarah Jane Asplin**, [DBE](/source/Dame_Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire) (born 16 September 1959) is a British judge of the [Court of Appeal of England and Wales](/source/Court_of_Appeal_of_England_and_Wales). She was granted the customary appointment as [Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire](/source/Dame_Commander_of_the_Most_Excellent_Order_of_the_British_Empire) on appointment as a [High Court judge](/source/High_Court_judge_(England_and_Wales)) in 2012, becoming the third woman appointed to the [Chancery Division](/source/Chancery_Division).[1]

## Education

Asplin attended [Southampton Sixth Form College for Girls](/source/Richard_Taunton_Sixth_Form_College#Hill_College) and read law at [Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge](/source/Fitzwilliam_College%2C_Cambridge), earning a BA in Law in 1982 (promoted to [MA (Cantab)](/source/Master_of_Arts_(Oxford%2C_Cambridge%2C_and_Dublin)) by seniority in 1986).[2] She went on to obtain the degree of [BCL](/source/Bachelor_of_Civil_Law) at [St Edmund Hall, Oxford](/source/St_Edmund_Hall%2C_Oxford).[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

## Legal career

Asplin was [called to the bar](/source/Called_to_the_bar) ([Gray's Inn](/source/Gray's_Inn)) in 1984 and was appointed a [Queen's Counsel](/source/Queen's_Counsel) in 2002.[3] She became the Head of Chambers at 3 Stone Buildings in 2009,[4] and was a deputy High Court Judge until her appointment to the [High Court](/source/High_Court_of_Justice) on 1 October 2012 as [the Honourable](/source/The_Honourable#United_Kingdom) Mrs Justice Asplin. She was the third woman to be assigned to the [Chancery Division](/source/Chancery_Division), after [Mary Arden](/source/Mary_Arden_(judge)) and [Sonia Proudman](/source/Sonia_Proudman).[5]

On 22 February 2013, she was appointed as [Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire](/source/Order_of_the_British_Empire).[6]

She was promoted to the Court of Appeal on 7 October 2017.[7]

In January 2019, Dame Sarah's appointment as Chair of the Church of England's Clergy Discipline Commission was announced. She simultaneously became the President of the Tribunals.[8]

## Personal life

In 1986, Asplin married Nicholas A. Sherwin, a solicitor with [Clifford Chance](/source/Clifford_Chance), who had been a contemporary at Cambridge.[9]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["No. 60439"](https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/60439/page/4263). *[The London Gazette](/source/The_London_Gazette)*. 5 March 2013. p. 4263.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** *List of Members - Cambridge University* (University of Cambridge, 1991), pp. 45, 1229: "SHERWIN Sarah Jane (Asplin Sarah Jane )"

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["No. 56538"](https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/56538/page/1). *[The London Gazette](/source/The_London_Gazette)*. 16 April 2002. p. 1.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Sarah Asplin QC appointed as Judge"](https://web.archive.org/web/20131006232707/http://www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/about/newsitem-3-132). 21 September 2012. Archived from [the original](http://www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/about/newsitem-3-132) on 6 October 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2012.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Appointment of a High Court Judge: Asplin"](https://web.archive.org/web/20140318163536/http://www.justice.gov.uk/news/judicial-appointments/judicial-050912-100) (Press release). Ministry of Justice. 5 September 2012. Archived from [the original](http://www.justice.gov.uk/news/judicial-appointments/judicial-050912-100) on 18 March 2014. Retrieved 20 October 2012.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [*London Gazette* notice of elevation of Mrs Justice Asplin to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)](https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/L-60439-1777109); accessed 8 December 2014.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** H M Government (6 October 2017). ["Crown Office"](https://m.thegazette.co.uk/notice/2881036). *London Gazette*. No. 62073. London. p. 18654.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["New Chair of Clergy Discipline Commission | The Church of England"](https://www.churchofengland.org/more/media-centre/news/new-chair-clergy-discipline-commission). 7 January 2019.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** *List of Members - Cambridge University* (University of Cambridge, 1991), p. 1229

v t e Judges of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales Ex officio members The Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill (Lady Chief Justice) Sir Geoffrey Vos (Master of the Rolls) Dame Victoria Sharp (President, King's Bench Division) Sir Stephen Cobb (President, Family Division) Sir Colin Birss (Chancellor) Lord Justices Lewison Bean Moylan Jackson Newey Singh Coulson Baker Haddon-Cave Green Males Arnold Popplewell Dingemans Phillips Stuart-Smith Lewis Nugee Edis Warby Fraser Baker Holgate Zacaroli Miles Dove Foxton Lady Justices King Thirlwall Asplin Andrews Laing Whipple Falk Yip Cockerill May

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