Sir Brian Langstaff | |
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Justice of the High Court | |
In office 2005–2018 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Brian Frederick James Langstaff 30 April 1948[1] |
Alma mater | St Catharine's College, Cambridge |
Sir Brian Frederick James Langstaff (born 30 April 1948), styled The Hon. Mr Justice Langstaff, is former a judge of the High Court of England and Wales.
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 made a 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]