Mr justice eady biography

Sir David Eady (born 24 March 1943) is a.
Sir David Eady is a retired High Court judge in England and Wales.
Charles Swinfen Eady, 1st Baron Swinfen, PC (31 July 1851 – 15 November 1919) was a British lawyer and judge.

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Dictionary of National Biography, 1927 supplement/Eady, Charles Swinfen

EADY, CHARLES SWINFEN, first Baron Swinfen (1851–1919), judge, was born at Chertsey 31 July 1851, the second son of George John Hady, surgeon, of Chertsey, by his wife, Laura Maria, daughter of Richard Smith, physician, of Chertsey. He was educated privately and at London University, where he took the degree of bachelor of laws in 1874, The year before this he had been articled to a Mr. Jenkins, solicitor, of Chertsey. He was admitted a solicitor in 1874 but soon determined to enter the higher branch of his profession. He was accordingly admitted as student of the Inner Temple in 1876 and was called to the bar in 1879. He read as a pupil in the chambers of (Lord) Cozens-Hardy, into whose shoes he was destined to step on more than one occasion. Eady had great capacity; his experience as a solicitor had given him confidence, and he speedily built up a good practice on the Chancery side. In 1893 Cozens-Hardy ‘went special’, thus creating a vacancy for a Q.C. in the court of Mr. Justice North. Eady at

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As cold as a frozen haddock, Mr Justice Eady hands down his views shorn of moral balance...

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One man to decide the law: Mr Justice Eady has handled many high-profile privacy cases in the UK

During the lurid case of Mosley v. News of the World, there was only one moment when Mr Justice Eady betrayed his humanity.

It came when the editor of the red-top tabloid described how busy his office tends to be on Friday evenings.

'You have a lot of balls in the air,' he said.

It was not, perhaps, the most felicitous phrase in a hearing which detailed a 'sex party' involving motor-racing chief Max Mosley and several under-dressed women, some speaking 'Allo 'Allo-style German.

'Balls in the air' indeed. A wintry smile crept on to the lean lips of Mr Justice Eady.

But then it disappeared as fast as it had arrived. For the rest of the case, he remained as cold as a frozen haddock.

Sir David Eady doesn't 'do' emotion. He doesn't really 'do' anything except the strict letter of the law, even when that law is palpably asinine.

Reporters at the Royal Courts of Justice gr

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David Eady

British High Court judge (born 1943)

This article is about the High Court judge. For the film director, see David Eady (film director).

Sir David Eady (born 24 March 1943) is a retired High Court judge in England and Wales. As a judge, he is known for having presided over many high-profile libel and privacy cases.

He was called to the bar in 1966 and became a Queen's Counsel in 1983. He was a member of One Brick Court chambers and, as a lawyer, specialised in media law until he was appointed a High Court Judge (Queen's Bench division) on 21 April 1997. As of November 2014, he continued to sit in the High Court as an additional judge.^[1]

Background

Eady was educated at the Brentwood School, Essex, and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge.^[2]

Barrister

Eady was a member of One Brick Court Chambers. He specialised in media law. The Daily Telegraph described him as "a leading courtroom defender of red-top journalism, much in demand as a barrister who could be relied on to uphold the freedom of the tabloids to expose th