About Stanley Burnton
Born 1942. Stanley Burnton is a judge and barrister.
Sir Stanley Jeffrey Burnton (born 25 October 1942) is a British lawyer and former Lord Justice of Appeal.
Early life Burnton was educated at Hackney Downs Grammar School. He studied jurisprudence at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and graduated from the University of Oxford 1964 with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree.
Burnton was appointed a High Court judge on 19 July 2000, receiving the customary knighthood, and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division. He was promoted, being named a Lord Justice of Appeal on 21 April 2008. He stepped down as a judge in 2012.
On 4 November 2015, Burnton was appointed as the Interception of Communications Commissioner.
Honours Burnton is an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
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