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Sir George Andrew Midsomer Leggatt (born 12 November 1957) is a Justice of the High Court, one of the Senior Courts of England and Wales.
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Education
Leggatt's father is the former Lord Justice of Appeal Sir Andrew Leggatt. Leggatt was educated at Eton College and earned a First-Class Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy at King's College, Cambridge in 1979. He was a Harkness Fellow at Harvard University (1979–80) and received a Diploma in Law with distinction from City Law School in 1981.
Legal career
Leggatt was called to the bar (Middle Temple) in 1983 and was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1997. He joined Brick Court Chambers in 1985, where he practised commercial law, including areas such as banking, insurance, sales, and product liability law. He became a recorder in 2002 and was a deputy High Court judge. On 26 October 2012, he was appointed to the High Court, receiving the customary knighthood, and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division.