Michael Hart (judge)
Sir Michael Christopher Campbell Hart (7 May 1948 – 20 February 2007) was a
Born in London, Hart was educated at
He was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, from 1970 until his death, with three intermissions in 1977 to 1979, 1986 to 1993 and 1995 to 2001. He was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1970, joining a Chancery chambers, practising in trust law, property law and revenue law.
He met his first wife, Melanie Sandiford, at Oxford, and they were married in 1972; they had two daughters. In 1996, he divorced his first wife, and married a second time, to Sara Jane Hargreaves, a barrister; they had a son.
He became a
He was appointed a judge in the Chancery Division on 21 April 1998, receiving the customary knighthood. He was Chancery Supervising Judge for the
He died of lung cancer, aged 58. He was survived by his second wife, their son, and his two daughters from his first marriage.
References
- Obituary, The Times, 2 March 2007
- Obituary, The Independent, 2 March 2007