Geoffrey Vos


Sir Geoffrey Charles Vos is a British judge. He serves currently as Chancellor of the High Court.
He was educated at University College School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
He was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1977. He was appointed as a Justice of the High Court assigned to the Chancery Division in October 2009. Between 2005 and 2009 he was a Judge of the Courts of Appeal of Jersey and Guernsey, and a Judge of the Court of Appeal of the Cayman Islands between 2008 and 2009.
He sat as a Deputy High Court Judge from 1999 until 2009. He was the Chairman of the Chancery Bar Association from 1999 to 2001 and of the Bar Council in 2007. He was President of the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary from June 2014 to June 2016. He was appointed as a Lord Justice of Appeal in 2013.
In July 2020, it was announced that he will be appointed as Master of the Rolls with the effect from 11 January 2021.

Notable decisions

Notable judicial decisions of Sir Geoffrey include:
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