Stanley Burnton

{{Short description|British lawyer and judge (born 1942)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Sir Stanley Burnton | honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable | office = Lord Justice of Appeal | office1 = Justice of the High Court | birth_name = Stanley Jeffrey Burnton | term_start = 2008 | term_end = 2012 | term_start1 = 2000 | term_end1 = 2008 }}

'''Sir Stanley Jeffrey Burnton''' (born 25 October 1942) is a British lawyer and former Lord Justice of Appeal.

==Early life== Burnton was educated at Hackney Downs Grammar School. He studied jurisprudence at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and graduated from the University of Oxford 1964 with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree.<ref name="bio - St Edmund Hall" />

==Legal career== Burnton was called to the bar (Middle Temple) in 1965 and was made a Bencher in 1991. He was appointed as Queen's Counsel in 1982, and was a Recorder from 1994 to 2000.<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.justice.gov.uk/news/judicial-appointments/judicial-251012-158 |title=Court of Appeal—Retirement of Lord Justice Burnton |publisher=Ministry of Justice |date=25 October 2012 |accessdate=26 October 2012}}</ref>

Burnton was appointed a High Court judge on 19 July 2000,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=55921 |page=8103 |date=24 July 2000}}</ref> receiving the customary knighthood, and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division. He was promoted, being named a Lord Justice of Appeal on 21 April 2008.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=58679 |page=6384 |date=25 April 2008}}</ref> He stepped down as a judge in 2012.<ref name="WW 22">{{cite web |title=Burnton, Rt Hon. Sir Stanley (Jeffrey), (born 25 Oct. 1942), a Lord Justice of Appeal, 2008–12; Arbitrator, since 2012; Interception of Communications Commissioner, 2015–17 |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U9541 |website=Who's Who 2022 |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=27 October 2022 |language=en |date=1 December 2021}}</ref>

On 4 November 2015, Burnton was appointed as the Interception of Communications Commissioner.<ref name="GOV.UK - Sir Stanley Burnton appointed Interception of Communications Commissioner">{{cite web|title=Sir Stanley Burnton appointed Interception of Communications Commissioner|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/sir-stanley-burnton-appointed-interception-of-communications-commissioner|website=GOV.UK|publisher=Prime Minister's Office|accessdate=5 November 2015|date=4 November 2015}}</ref>

==Honours== Burnton is an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.<ref>{{cite web|title=Honorary Fellows|url=http://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/fellows-and-staff/honorary-fellows|website=St Edmund Hall|publisher=University of Oxford|accessdate=5 November 2015}}</ref><ref name="bio - St Edmund Hall">{{cite web|title=The Rt Hon Sir Stanley Burnton|url=http://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/users/stanleyburnton|website=St Edmund Hall|publisher=University of Oxford|accessdate=5 November 2015}}</ref>

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