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Brian Langstaff

Brian Langstaff

British judge (born 1948)

Sir Brian Frederick James Langstaff KC (born 30 April 1948) is a former judge of the High Court of England and Wales, styled Mr Justice Langstaff.

Quick Facts Sir Brian LangstaffKC, Justice of the High Court ...

He was educated at George Heriot's School, Edinburgh, and then at St Catharine's College, Cambridge.[2]

He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1971 and became a bencher there in 2001. He was appointed QC in 1994, and was appointed a judge of the High Court of Justice in 2005 and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division.[3] He retired from the High Court in May 2018.

In February 2018 it was announced that he would be the Chair of the Infected Blood Inquiry, which became officially established on 2 July 2018.[4] In July 2022, the Inquiry published an interim report and Langstaff concluded that the 4,000 victims were provisionally entitled to £100,000 each and the payments ought to be made quickly.[5][6]

Notable cases

  • Thompson v Arnold (2007) Legal case concerning damages already awarded where death ensued
  • Van Wees v Karkour (2007) Road traffic accident personal injury case with significance for the assessment of damages

References

  1. [1]
    "Retired Senior Judiciary under 75". judiciary.uk. Courts and Tribunals Judiciary. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  2. [2]
    ‘LANGSTAFF, Hon. Sir Brian (Frederick James)’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014
  3. [3]
    Whitaker's Almanack 2012. Bloomsbury Publishing. 2011. p. 318. ISBN 9781408130124. Retrieved 18 September 2021. Law Courts and Offices: Hon. Sir Brian Langstaff, born 1948, apptd 2005.
  4. [4]
    "Infected Blood Inquiry - Biography of the Chair, Sir Brian Langstaff". Infected Blood Inquiry.
  5. [5]
    "Infected blood victims set for £400m in compensation". BBC News. 29 July 2022. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  6. [6]
    "Infected blood victims 'should be paid £100,000 each without delay'". The Daily Telegraph. London. 29 July 2022. Retrieved 29 July 2022. In an interim report, Sir Brian Langstaff said payments should be made "without delay" to those infected or to their bereaved partners.


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