Stephen Eyre

Sir Stephen John Arthur Eyre , styled Mr Justice Eyre, is a British High Court judge.

Personal life

Eyre was born in Stourbridge on the 17th of October 1957 and attended Solihull School in the West Midlands.
He later began his studies in 1976 at New College, Oxford, graduating as a Bachelor of Arts in 1979 and as a Bachelor of Civil Law in 1980. He would later take a Master of Laws in 2010 at Cardiff University.
Eyre married Margaret Goodman in 1989.

He was called to the Bar in 1981 by Inner Temple, making him the first lawyer in his family. He then became a member of 1 Fountain Court Chambers in Birmingham until 2002 when the chambers merged with St Philips Chambers, Birmingham.
Eyre was appointed as a Recorder in 2005 and in 2007, appointed as a Fee-Paid Judge for the First-tier Tribunal of Health, Education and Social Care.
From 2009 to 2020 Stephen Eyre was Chancellor, Vicar-General and Official Principal of the Diocese of Coventry being replaced in that position by The Worshipful Glyn Samuel. He was also Chancellor of the Diocese of Lichfield for ten years until September 2022, being replaced in that position by The Worshipful Dr Anthony Verduyn.
Eyre was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2015.
He would later be appointed as a Circuit judge in 2015 and assigned to the Birmingham, Leamington Spa and Wolverhampton Circuit. In 2017 he was appointed to the Business and Property Courts in Manchester and Liverpool, as a Specialist Civil Circuit Judge.
In 2021, Eyre was appointed as a High Court Judge and assigned to the King's Bench Division. He received the customary knighthood in March 2022 at Windsor Castle.

Eyre was elected to Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council for the Conservatives representing Olton ward in 1983, and was re-elected in 1987 [Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election|1987]. He stood down in 1991 to contest the Strangford seat in the 1992 general election, but returned as a Councillor for the St Alphege ward in 1992 Solihull [Metropolitan Borough Council election|1992]. He only served one term, standing down again in 1996.
While working as a barrister, Eyre stood as the Conservative Party candidate in the Birmingham Hodge Hill by-election">Birmingham Hodge Hill (UK Parliament constituency)">Birmingham Hodge Hill by-election, which elected Labour MP Liam Byrne. Eyre finished third of seven candidates, with 17.3 percent of the vote.
He had previously stood in Stourbridge in 2001 [United Kingdom general election|2001], Strangford in 1992, and Birmingham Hodge Hill in 1987.