Background
He is the son of Sir Murray Stuart-Smith (a former Lord Justice of Appeal) and Joan, the daughter of Major Thomas Motion.
He is the son of Sir Murray Stuart-Smith (a former Lord Justice of Appeal) and Joan, the daughter of Major Thomas Motion.
He was educated at Radley College and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Stuart-Smith was called to the Bar in 1978 and was appointed Queen"s Counsel in 1997 and a Recorder in 1999. In 1997 he was appointed to perform a scrutiny regarding the Hillsborough disaster. He was appointed a High Court judge with effect from 2 October 2012, being assigned by the Lord Chief Justice to the Queen's Bench Division.
He is the co-author, with Professor Robert Merkin, of a textbook on the law of motor insurance.
He is a keen player of the French horn.