Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Nationality: | British |
Birth Place: | Lincolnshire, England |
Birth Date: | 11 April 1963 |
Mr Justice Edwin Johnson | |
Term Start: | 1 October 2021 |
Office: | Justice of the High Court |
Caption: | Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom |
Alma Mater: | Christ Church, Oxford |
Sir Edwin Geoffrey Johnson (born 11 May 1963) is a British High Court judge.
Johnson was born in Lincolnshire, England and grew up in Surrey; he was educated at Lancing College. He then attended Christ Church, Oxford where he completed a BA in jurisprudence in 1986.[1] [2]
In 1991, he married Mary Thorne and together they have two sons and a daughter.
He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1987 and practised real property and professional negligence from Maitland Chambers.[3] He took silk in 2006 and was appointed a deputy High Court judge in 2017. He was an editor of Snell's Equity thirty-first edition in 2005.[4] As a practitioner, he appeared before the House of Lords.[5]
On 1 October 2021, Johnson was appointed a judge of the High Court and assigned to the Chancery Division.[6] He received the customary knighthood in the same year.[7] He was appointed President of the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) on 1 August 2022. [8]