Jonathan Philip Chadwick Sumption, Lord Sumption, is a British legal figure born on December 9, 1948. He served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2012 to 2018 and later as a non-permanent judge of Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal from 2019 to 2024, after a career as a commercial barrister who took silk as Queen's Counsel in 1986. He is also a medieval historian, author of a five-volume narrative history of the Hundred Years' War.
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Exceptionally, he was appointed to the Supreme Court directly from the practising bar, without having been a full-time judge.
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Jonathan Philip Chadwick Sumption, Lord Sumption,, is a British author, medieval historian, barrister and former senior judge who sat on the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom between 2012 and 2018 and on the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal between 2019 and 2024.
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Called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1975, he then pursued a successful legal practice in commercial law.
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Jonathan Philip Chadwick Sumption, Lord Sumption, (born 9 December 1948), is a British author, medieval historian, barrister and former senior judge who sat on the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom between 2012 and 2018 and on the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal between 2019 and 2024.
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Jonathan Philip Chadwick Sumption, Lord Sumption,, is a British author, medieval historian, barrister and former senior judge who sat on the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom between 2012 and 2018 and on the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal between 2019 and 2024.
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