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Asplin attended the Southampton Sixth Form College for Girls and read law at, Cambridge, earning a Bachelor in Law in 1982 (Master of Arts (Cantab) 1986). She went on to complete her Bachelor of Civil Law at Street Edmund Hall, Oxford.
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Sarah Asplin
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She was granted the customary appointment as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2012. Asplin was called to the bar (Gray’s Inn) in 1984 and was appointed a Queen"s Counsel in 2002 (Fitwilliam College"s first female law graduate to be so appointed). She became the Head of Chambers at 3 Stone Buildings in 2009, and was a Deputy High Court Judge until her promotion to the High Court on 1 October 2012 and became The Honourable Mrs Justice Sarah Asplin when assigned to the Chancery Division.
On 3 February 2016, she granted a death certificate for the missing (and fugitive) Lord Lucan, who has not been seen for more than 40 years (although seven years is the legal requirement), on the presumption that he has died.
On 22 February 2013, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
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