About Simon Picken
Born 1966. Simon Picken is a British judge.
Sir Simon Picken (born 23 April 1966) is a British High Court judge.
Picken was educated at Cardiff High School, then completed an LLB at University College, Cardiff in 1987 and a starred first-class LLM from Magdalene College, Cambridge in 1988. He took silk in 2006, served as a recorder in 2005 to 2015, a Deputy High Court judge from 2010. From 2009 to 2015, he was the Commercial Law QC to the Welsh Government.
He married Sophie Victoria Seddon in 1992, with whom he has one son and three daughters.
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