The Right Honourable
Lady Justice Asplin
DBE
Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom
Lady Justice of Appeal
Assumed office
2017
Justice of the High Court
In office
2012–2017
Personal details
Born (1959-09-16) 16 September 1959
United Kingdom
Alma materFitzwilliam College, Cambridge

Dame Sarah Jane Asplin, DBE (born 16 September 1959) is a British judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. She was granted the customary appointment as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire on appointment as a High Court judge in 2012, becoming the third woman appointed to the Chancery Division.[1]

Education

Asplin attended Southampton Sixth Form College for Girls and read law at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, earning a BA in Law in 1982 (promoted to MA (Cantab) by seniority in 1986).[2] She went on to obtain the degree of BCL at St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

Asplin was called to the bar (Gray's Inn) in 1984 and was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 2002.[3] She became the Head of Chambers at 3 Stone Buildings in 2009,[4] and was a deputy High Court Judge until her appointment to the High Court on 1 October 2012 as the Honourable Mrs Justice Asplin. She was the third woman to be assigned to the Chancery Division, after Mary Arden and Sonia Proudman.[5]

On 22 February 2013, she was appointed as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.[6]

She was promoted to the Court of Appeal on 7 October 2017.[7]

In January 2019, Dame Sarah's appointment as Chair of the Church of England's Clergy Discipline Commission was announced. She simultaneously became the President of the Tribunals.[8]

Personal life

In 1986, Asplin married Nicholas A. Sherwin, a solicitor with Clifford Chance, who had been a contemporary at Cambridge.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "No. 60439". The London Gazette. 5 March 2013. p. 4263.
  2. ↑ List of Members - Cambridge University (University of Cambridge, 1991), pp. 45, 1229: "SHERWIN Sarah Jane (Asplin Sarah Jane )"
  3. ↑ "No. 56538". The London Gazette. 16 April 2002. p. 1.
  4. ↑ "Sarah Asplin QC appointed as Judge". 21 September 2012. Archived from the original on 6 October 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
  5. ↑ "Appointment of a High Court Judge: Asplin" (Press release). Ministry of Justice. 5 September 2012. Archived from the original on 18 March 2014. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
  6. ↑ London Gazette notice of elevation of Mrs Justice Asplin to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE); accessed 8 December 2014.
  7. ↑ H M Government (6 October 2017). "Crown Office". London Gazette. No. 62073. London. p. 18654.
  8. ↑ "New Chair of Clergy Discipline Commission | The Church of England".
  9. ↑ List of Members - Cambridge University (University of Cambridge, 1991), p. 1229


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