Education
He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford and called to the bar in 1977.
He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford and called to the bar in 1977.
Mr Justice Holroyde, is a judge of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales, Queen's Bench Division. As a barrister, he practised from Exchange Chambers, Liverpool. He was appointed Queen"s Counsel in 1996, and was appointed to the High Court in January 2009.
From 2012 he is a Presiding Judge of the Northern Circuit.
He appeared as counsel for the prosecution in the trial that followed the 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster. In 2012 Mr Justice Holroyde presided over the seven-month trial of Asil Nadir on fraud charges.