Edwin Johnson (judge)

Sir Edwin Geoffrey Johnson is a British High Court judge.

Personal life and education

Johnson was born in Lincolnshire, England and grew up in Surrey; he was educated at Lancing College. He then attended Christ Church, Oxford where he completed a BA in jurisprudence in 1986.
In 1991, he married Mary Thorne and together they have two sons and a daughter.

Career

He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1987 and practised real property and professional negligence from Maitland Chambers. He took silk in 2006 and was appointed a deputy High Court judge in 2017. He was an editor of Snell's Equity thirty-first edition in 2005. As a practitioner, he appeared before the House of Lords.
On 1 October 2021, Johnson was appointed a judge of the High Court and assigned to the Chancery Division. He received the customary knighthood in the same year. He was appointed President of the Upper Tribunal on 1 August 2022.