Andrew Nicol (judge)

Sir Andrew George Lindsay Nicol (born 9 May 1951), styled The Hon. Mr Justice Nicol, is a judge of the High Court of England and Wales.

For the rugby player, see Andy Nicol.

The Hon. Mr Justice Nicol
High Court Judge
Assumed office
2009
Personal details
Born (1951-05-09) 9 May 1951
Alma materSelwyn College, Cambridge
Harvard Law School

He was educated at City of London Freemen's School, Selwyn College, Cambridge, and Harvard Law School (LLM).[1]

He was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1978 and became a bencher there in 2004.[2] He was made a QC in 1995, deputy judge of the High Court from 2003 to 2009, and judge of the High Court of Justice (Queen's Bench Division) since 2009.

He co-wrote Media Law with Geoffrey Robertson.[3][4]

Controversial cases

Mr David Sellu

Justice Nicol was the judge in the trial of consultant surgeon David Sellu in November 2013. Sellu was found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter following the death of a patient under his care. He served 15 months imprisonment of a 30 month sentence.[5] After release Sellu's appeal against the conviction was successful in 2016.[6] The grounds for success were that Justice Nicol had failed to instruct the jury properly with regard to the meaning of the charge.[7] The jury had returned to court before reaching their verdict seeking further guidance, which was not forthcoming from Justice Nicol.[8]

Personal life

He is married to Camilla Palmer QC, and has two sons.[4]

See also

References
  1. ‘NICOL, Hon. Sir Andrew (George Lindsay)’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014
  2. "Middle Temple Masters of the Bench - The Hon Mr Justice Andrew Nicol". The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  3. Cohen, Nick. "Secret justice will lead to paranoia – and it's not very British". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
  4. Robertson, Geoffrey; Nicol, Andrew (2002). Media Law (4th ed.). Penguin Books. p. ii. ISBN 9780140247695.
  5. Best, Jessica (6 November 2013). "Surgeon jailed for being 'too laid back' as patient died at private hospital". Mirror.co.uk. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  6. Dyer, Clare (2016). "Senior surgeon's conviction for manslaughter is quashed". BMJ. 355: i6178. doi:10.1136/bmj.i6178. PMID 27852571.
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 1 February 2018. Retrieved 31 January 2018.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. "Mistake or manslaughter? - RSM Videos". Videos.rsm.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 5 September 2018. Retrieved 8 September 2018.


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