Peter Richard Lane

Sir Richard Lane
Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom
High Court Judge
King's Bench Division
In office
2 October 2017 – 1 February 2024
MonarchCharles III
Personal details
Born (1953-04-26) 26 April 1953 (age 71)
United Kingdom
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Hertford College, Oxford

Sir Peter Richard Lane (born 26 April 1953)[1] is a retired British High Court judge.

Early life and education

Lane was educated Worcester Royal Grammar School. He studied at Hertford College, Oxford and took a first-class BA in jurisprudence in 1974. He completed an LLM at University of California, Berkeley in 1975.[1]

Career

He was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1976, and practised from 1977 to 1980. He was lecturer in law at QMUL from 1978 to 1980. From 1980 to 1985, he was assistant parliamentary counsel. In 1985, he qualified as a solicitor and served as solicitor and parliamentary agent from 1985 to 2001; he was partner at Rees & Freres from 1987 to 2001.[1]

He was appointed a part-time immigration adjudicator from 1996 to 2001, becoming full time from 2001 to 2003. From 2003, he served as vice-president and senior immigration judge at the Immigration Appeal Tribunal and in 2010 he was appointed a judge of the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) until 2017. He was legal member of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission from 2005 to 2017. He was President of the First-tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber) from 2014 to 2017 and served as a deputy High Court judge from 2016 to 2017.[2][1]

High Court appointment

On 2 October 2017, he was appointed a judge of the High Court and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division.[3] He took the customary knighthood in the same year. He has been president of the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) since 2017.[1]

Personal life

In 1980, he married Shelley Ilene Munjack (a retired judge), with whom he has one son and one daughter.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Lane, Hon. Sir Peter (Richard), (born 26 April 1953)". Who's Who (UK). 1 December 2020. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u10000318. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  2. ^ "Judicial appointment". The Times. 19 December 2014. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  3. ^ "Senior Judiciary". Judiciary UK. Retrieved 14 April 2022.