Philip Sales, Lord Sales

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Lord Justice of Appeal
In office
2014–2019
Personal details
Born (1962-02-11) 11 February 1962 (age 62)
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Philip James Sales, Lord Sales,

PC (born 11 February 1962) is a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
. He took office on 14 January 2019.

Early life

He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, Churchill College, Cambridge (BA, 1983), and Worcester College, Oxford (BCL, 1984).[1]

Career

He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1985. In 1997, he was appointed First Junior Treasury Counsel ("Treasury Devil"), a private practitioner barrister who represents the UK government in the civil courts.[2] This caused "consternation" among senior lawyers, according to The Times, due to his young age.[3]

Sales was a practising barrister at 11 King's Bench Walk. At the time of the appointment, there was debate over Sales' appointment. According to

Lord Irvine's and Tony Blair's old chambers".[4] Acting as a barrister Sales defended the New Labour government's decision against holding a public inquiry into the Iraq War in the High Court in 2005.[5]

He was made a

Lord Justice of Appeal
from July 2014.

In 2016, Sales, as a member of the

leadership contest, which over-ruled the previous High Court decision to allow the 130,000 disenfranchised Labour Party members to vote in the 2016 Labour Party leadership election.[6][7][8]

In October 2016 Sales was one of the three judges forming the

Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. His role in this judgment meant that he appeared in an infamous front-cover of the Daily Mail (Enemies of the People
).

Supreme Court

Lord Justice Sales was appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom on 11 January 2019,

judicial courtesy title
of Lord Sales.

Personal life

Sales married Miranda Wolpert in 1988; they have a son and a daughter.[1]

Arms

Coat of arms of Philip Sales, Lord Sales
Crest
Statant upon a balance Sable the pans Or an owl guardant also Or beaked and legged Gules holding in the dexter foot a sprig of oak Vert fructed Or.
Escutcheon
Per chevron Or and Azure in chief two stacks of three closed books Argent bound Azure garnished and in base three bees one and two volant Or.
Motto
Semper Perstat Sales [10]

References

  1. ^ a b "Sales, Rt Hon. Lord". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ISBN 9781139468985
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  3. ISBN 9780198260332
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  4. ^ Barnett, Antony; Editor, Public Affairs (5 June 1999). "Job for Irvine friend fuels row over 'Tony's cronies'". The Guardian. {{cite news}}: |last2= has generic name (help)
  5. ^ Teher, Abul (13 October 2009). "Treasury QC gets £3m in fees – and we foot the bill". London Evening Standard.
  6. ^ Turner, Matt (12 August 2016). "Labour Appeal: Fury as Appeal Court Judge Philip Sales' intimate links to Tony Blair revealed". Evolve Politics.
  7. The Huffington Post
    . 12 August 2016. Retrieved on 13 August 2016.
  8. ^ Stewart, Heather; Syal, Rajeev; Quinn, Ben (12 July 2016). "Labour executive rules Jeremy Corbyn must be on leadership ballot". Retrieved on 13 August 2016, The Guardian.
  9. ^ Bowcott, Owen (28 June 2018). "UK supreme court to get third female justice". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  10. ^ "Lincoln's Inn Great Hall, Ec5 Sales P(relettered)". Baz Manning. 18 May 2015. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
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