Education
Openshaw was educated at Harrow School, an all-boys public school in Harrow, London. He studied at Street Catharine"s College, Cambridge.
Openshaw was educated at Harrow School, an all-boys public school in Harrow, London. He studied at Street Catharine"s College, Cambridge.
Mr Justice Openshaw, is an English judge of the High Court, Queen"s Bench Division. Openshaw was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1970. From 1988 to 1999, he served as a Recorder (a part-time judge) at Preston.
On 9 April 1991, he was appointed a Queen"s Counsel (Queen's Counsel).
On 16 March 1999, Openshaw was appointed a Circuit Judge. In September 2005, he was appointed as a High Court Judge and sits in the Queen"s Bench Division.
Between 2008 and 2012, he was a presiding judge of the North Eastern Circuit. He was made a Bencher of the Inner Temple in 2003.
Openshaw Internet statements Openshaw attracted international media attention, when he stated in open court at Woolwich Crown Court, east London on 16 May 2007, "The trouble is I don"t understand the language.
I don"t really understand what a Web site is." Court officials later said his statement was an attempt to clarify issues for the benefit of the court, not for himself, as is the role of the judiciary.
Since 2005, he has been a member of the Criminal Procedure Rules Committee.