{{Short description|English judge}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable | name = Lord Justice Holroyde | honorific_suffix = | image = Sir Timothy Holroyde 2018.jpg | office = Lord Justice of Appeal | term_start = October 2017 | term_end = | monarch = Elizabeth II<br />Charles III | predecessor = | successor = | office2 = High Court Judge<br>Queen's Bench Division | term_start2 = 2009 | term_end2 = 2017 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|8|18|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | birth_name = Timothy Victor Holroyde | spouse = | alma_mater = Wadham College, Oxford | footnotes = | vice_president = Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) | signature = Lord Justice Holroyde's Signature.png }}
'''Sir Timothy Victor Holroyde''', PC (born 18 August 1955), styled '''The Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Holroyde''', is an English Court of Appeal judge, formerly a judge of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales, Queen's Bench Division. He was appointed to the Court of Appeal in October 2017.<ref>{{cite web|title=Biographies of the 7 newly appointed Court of Appeal Judges|url=https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/publications/biographies-of-the-7-newly-appointed-court-of-appeal-judges|website=Courts and Tribunals Judiciary|accessdate=4 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Senior judiciary|url=http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/about-the-judiciary/who-are-the-judiciary/senior-judiciary-list/|website=Courts and Tribunals Judiciary|accessdate=4 December 2017}}</ref> He was sworn of the Privy Council in 2017. In 2015, he was appointed a member of the Sentencing Council for England and Wales, and served as its Chairman between 2018 and 2022.<ref name=sentencingcouncil>>{{cite web|title=Sentencing Council members|url=https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/sentencing-and-the-council/about-the-sentencing-council/sentencing-council/|publisher=Sentencing Council|accessdate=3 November 2022}}</ref> In June 2022, he was appointed Vice-President of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division), succeeding Lord Justice Fulford.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.judiciary.uk/announcement-vice-president-of-the-court-of-appeal-criminal-division/|title= Announcement: Vice-President of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)|publisher=Judiciary of England & Wales|date=2022-05-03}}</ref> He has also been a Bencher of the Middle Temple since March 2005.
== Education == [[File:Wadham College, Oxford.JPG|left|thumb|Wadham College, University of Oxford]] Timothy Holroyde<ref name="sentencingcouncil" /> was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Wadham College, Oxford, where he attained a Bachelors in Jurisprudence. He was called to the Bar in November 1977 (Middle Temple).<ref>Middle Temple, Bencher Persons View at https://www.middletemple.org.uk/bencher-persons-view?cid=35292</ref> As a barrister, he practised from Exchange Chambers, Liverpool.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.exchangechambers.co.uk/index.php/news/news_detail/tim_holroyde_qc_receives_knighthood/|title= Tim Holroyde QC Receives Knighthood |publisher=Exchange Chambers |accessdate=2013-02-21}}</ref> He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1996, and was appointed to the High Court in January 2009. From 2012 he was a Presiding Judge of the Northern Circuit.<ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/media/media-releases/2011/new-presiding-judges-appointed|title= New Presiding Judges appointed|publisher=Judiciary of England & Wales|date=2011-06-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/d/2329/Timothy%20Victor%20(Tim)%20Holroy+de%20HOLROYDE.aspx |title=The Hon Mr Justice Holroyde |accessdate=2013-02-21 |publisher=Debretts.com}}</ref>
== Legal career == As a barrister, he appeared as counsel for the prosecution in the trial that followed the 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4261204.stm|title= Court hears of cockling dangers|publisher=BBC|date=2005-09-19}}</ref> [[File:Royal courts of justice.jpg|left|thumb|The Royal Courts of Justice which house the Court of Appeal where Lord Holroyde is a Lord Justice of Appeal.]] In 2012, Timothy Holroyde presided over the seven-month trial of Asil Nadir on fraud charges.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19352531|title= Asil Nadir jailed for 10 years for Polly Peck thefts|publisher=BBC|date=2012-08-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/media/judgments/2012/asil-nadir-sentencing-remarks-23082012|title= R -v- Asil Nadir: Sentencing Remarks of The Hon Mr Justice Holroyde|publisher= Judiciary of England & Wales|date=2012-08-23}}</ref> Other cases included the trial of Anjem Choudary in 2016 for terrorist-related offences, and that of Dale Cregan in 2013 for crimes including the murders of PC Fiona Bone and PC Nicola Hughes.<ref>{{cite web|title=New Chairman for the Sentencing Council: appointment of Lord Justice Holroyde|url=https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/news/item/new-chairman-for-the-sentencing-council-appointment-of-lord-justice-holroyde/|publisher=Sentencing Council|accessdate=3 November 2022}}</ref> In 2021, he presided over the British Post Office scandal case in the Court of Appeal, in which the convictions of 39 sub-postmasters for theft, false accounting and/or fraud were quashed.<ref>{{cite BAILII |litigants=Hamilton & Ors v Post Office Ltd |link= |court=EWCA |division=Crim |year=2021 |num=577 |para= |parallelcite= |date=23 April 2021 |courtname=auto}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=23 April 2021 |title=Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56859357 |access-date=3 November 2022}}</ref>
In July 2024, Holroyde was awarded an honorary doctorate by Edge Hill University in recognition of his contributions to the legal profession and connection with the local community.<ref>{{cite web |date=27 July 2024 |title=Lord Justice Tim Holroyde receives honorary doctorate from Edge Hill University |url=https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/news/2024/07/lord-justice-tim-holroyde-receives-honorary-doctorate-from-edge-hill-university/7 |access-date=2 September 2024}}</ref>
He retired from his role as Lord Justice of Appeals on 25th October 2025.<ref>{{cite web |date=25 October 2025 |title= Court of Appeal: Retirement of Lord Justice Tim Holroyde |url= https://www.judiciary.uk/appointments-and-retirements/court-of-appeal-retirement-of-lord-justice-tim-holroyde/ |access-date=18 April 2026}}</ref>
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