Background
His father is the former Lord Justice of Appeal Sir Andrew Leggatt.
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George Leggatt
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Leggatt was educated at and earned a First-Class Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy at King"s College, Cambridge in 1979. He was a Harkness Fellow at Harvard University (1979-1980) and received a Diploma in Law with distinction from City Law School in 1981.
Career
Leggatt was called to the bar (Middle Temple) in 1983 and was appointed a Queen"s Counsel in 1997. He joined Brick Court Chambers in 1985, where he practised commercial law, including areas such as banking, insurance, sales, and product liability law. He became a Recorder (a part-time judge) in 2002 and was a deputy High Court judge.
On 26 October 2012, he was appointed to the High Court, receiving the customary knighthood, and assigned to the Queen"s Bench Division.
Yam Seng Pte Limited v International Trade Corporation Limited EWHC 111, finding a duty of good faith in English contract law Serdar Mohammed v Ministry of Defence EWHC 1369 (QB), finding the United Kingdom in breach of its obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights, (specifically Article 5). The United Kingdom lacks detention authority under international humanitarian law to capture and detain individuals for longer than 96 hours in the course of the non-international armed conflict in Afghanistan.
