Nigel Davis


Sir Nigel Anthony Lamert Davis, PC is a Lord Justice of Appeal.

Education

Davis was educated at Charterhouse School and University College, Oxford.

Career

Davis was called to the Bar in 1975. In 1992, he became a Queen's Counsel. He was appointed a Recorder in 1998. The next year, he was named a Deputy High Court Judge. Davis was appointed to the High Court of Justice on 1 October 2001 and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division; he was knighted the same year. He served as a Presiding Judge for the Wales Circuit from 2006 to 2009. In 2011, he was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal effective 4 October 2011, and it was announced he would receive the customary appointment to the Privy Council.