About Nigel Poole
Born 1965. Nigel Poole is a British judge.
Sir Nigel David Poole (born 10 November 1965) is a British High Court judge.
Poole was born in Shipley, England and educated at Bradford Grammar School. He attended The Queen's College, Oxford and completed a BA in philosophy, politics and economics in 1984. He then attended City University London where he completed a diploma in law and the Inns of Court School of Law where he completed his barrister vocational training.
From 2012 to 2020, he was a chair of the Bar Tribunal and Adjudication Service, determining disciplinary issues for practising barristers. He was appointed a recorder in 2009, took silk in 2012. He was appointed a deputy High Court judge in 2017. He received the customary knighthood in 2022. Since 2021, he has been the Family Division liaison judge for the North Eastern Circuit.
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British judge
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Nigel Poole was born on 10 November 1965 in Shipley, West Yorkshire.
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