Sir Timothy Roger Alan King (born 5 April 1949), styled The Hon. Mr Justice King, is a judge of the High Court of England and Wales assigned to the Queen's Bench Division.
King was educated at the Liverpool Institute and Lincoln College, Oxford, where he achieved the degrees of MA and BCL. He was called to the Bar in 1973 by Lincoln's Inn and practised on the Northern Circuit, taking silk in 1991.
2001: R v Liverpool City Council, ex parte Karl Barry (Court of Appeal) on the limitations of local authority to licence "doormen".
2004: R ex app. PD v West Midlands and North West Mental Health Review Tribunal (Court of Appeal) - on apparent or perceived bias of members of mental health tribunals.
2006: King defended BNP leaders Nick Griffin and Mark Collett at Leeds Crown Court on charges of inciting racial hatred. Their defence was based upon political freedom of speech. The defendants were acquitted of some charges at the initial trial, with the jury in that trial failing to reach a verdict on the remaining counts, at a re-trial they were acquitted of the a remaining counts.
2006: Jones v Whalley (House of Lords): King argued about the effects of a police caution on subsequent proceedings.
King was appointed to the High Court bench on 29 January 2007, and awarded a knighthood on 28 June the same year.
