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Nigel Sweeney is a British barrister and former judge. He was born in 1954 and is 66 years old. He was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read law. He was called to the Bar in 1977 and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1995. Sweeney was appointed a Recorder of the Crown Court in 1998 and a Circuit Judge in 2002. He was appointed a High Court Judge in the Queen's Bench Division in 2008. He was the Presiding Judge of the South Eastern Circuit from 2011 to 2014. In 2014, Sweeney was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal and a member of the Privy Council. He was appointed a Deputy Senior Presiding Judge in 2015. Sweeney is married to Lady Sweeney, a former barrister. They have two children.

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Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 18 March, 1954
Birthday 18 March
Birthplace United Kingdom
Nationality United Kingdom

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2013

He presided over the trial in February and March 2013 of former Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Chris Huhne MP and his former wife, Vicky Pryce, for perverting the course of justice contrary to common law. He sentenced another MP Denis MacShane for fraud in the aftermath of the 2009 parliamentary expenses scandal.

More recently he presided over and was sentencing judge in high-profile cases involving terrorists and extremists, such as the two men responsible for the murder of Lee Rigby in 2013 and White supremacist bomber Pavlo Lapshyn. He was the presiding judge in the trial of Rolf Harris for various counts of indecent assault dating back to the 1960s.

2005

Prior to being appointed a High Court judge, Sweeney was a barrister in the United Kingdom, practising from 6 King's Bench Walk. He prosecuted a number of notable criminal trials, including the perpetrators of the 1984 IRA Brighton bombing and the attempted bombings of 21 July 2005, Neo-Nazi terrorist David Copeland and murderers Michael Stone and Kamel Bourgass.

1976

Sweeney studied law at the University of Nottingham under Sir John Cyril Smith. He was called to the bar in 1976 at the Middle Temple, where he was made a bencher in 1997, and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2000. He was appointed to the High Court (Queen's Bench) in September 2008.

1954

Sir Nigel Hamilton Sweeney (born 18 March 1954), styled The Hon. Mr Justice Sweeney, is a High Court judge.