Victoria Sharp

Dame Victoria Madeleine Sharp, DBE (born 8 February 1956), styled The Rt. Hon. Lady Justice Sharp, is an English Lady Justice of Appeal.

Educated at North London Collegiate School and the University of Bristol, Victoria Sharp was called to the Bar, Inner Temple in 1979. She became a Recorder in 1998 and was also a QC.

She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE), as is customary, on her appointment as a Justice of the High Court on 13 January 2009.

She became Vice-President of the Queen's Bench Division on 1 January 2016, succeeding Sir Nigel Davis.

In May 2017, she sentenced a man who unintentionally and under the influence of alcohol caused a fire on a plane toilet to nine years and six months imprisonment.