Hon. Justice Sir George Newman

Date Appointed

Appointed since 2013

Nationality

British

qualifications

  • Born 1941, British
  • B.A. St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge 1961-64
  • Called to the Bar of England and Wales by Middle Temple, 1965
  • Appointed Queen’s Counsel, 1981
  • Appointed Recorder of the Crown Court for England & Wales, 1982
  • Appointed Deputy High Court Judge, 1989
  • Elected a Bencher of the Middle Temple, 1989
  • Treasurer, Middle Temple 2009
  • Practised primarily in London but also in Bermuda, Brunei, Fiji, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore
  • Extensive experience in constitutional and commercial cases
  • Constitutional Adviser to the Governor General of Fiji (1987) and to the President of Fiji (1987-1990)
  • Formerly a Judge of the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court
  • Formerly non-resident Judge of the Court of Appeal in the Bahamas
  • Appointed as Surveillance Commissioner for England and Wales in January 2010
  • Appointed Justice of the Court of Appeal, Cayman Islands 2013