Guy Newey


Sir Guy Richard Newey, styled The Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Newey, is a Lord Justice of Appeal.

Early life

The son of J. H. R. Newey and his wife Mollie Chalk, Newey was born in 1959 and educated at Tonbridge School and Queens' College, Cambridge.

Career

He was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1982 and made a bencher there in 2010. He was made a QC in 2001, a deputy judge of the High Court of Justice in 2006, and then a full judge in 2010 at which point he was awarded the customary knighthood, where he was assigned to the Chancery Division. In 2017 he was promoted to the Court of Appeal. On appointment to the Court of Appeal, he was appointed to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.