Education
Education: Ottershaw School, University of Bristol (Bachelor of Laws), London School of Economics (Master of Laws).
Education: Ottershaw School, University of Bristol (Bachelor of Laws), London School of Economics (Master of Laws).
Field was an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law from 1969 until becoming a lecturer at the University of Hong Kong in 1971. He served as an associate professor at the McGill University Faculty of Law in Montreal from 1973 to 1977. Field was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1977 and later made a bencher.
He became a Queen"s Counsel in 1987.
Field was appointed a Recorder in 1999. On 11 January 2002, he was appointed a High Court judge, receiving the customary knighthood, and assigned to the Queen"s Bench Division.
He served as presiding judge of the Western Circuit from 2009 to 2012. He retired on 31 August 2014.