David Foskett
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Sir David Robert Foskett (born 19 March 1949), styled The Hon. Mr Justice Foskett, is a British High Court judge
High Court judge
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He was educated at Warwick School
Warwick School
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 and at King's College London
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 (LLB, 1970) during which time he also served as President of the Students' Union
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. He was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn
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 in 1972 and became a bencher there in 1999. He was made a QC
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 in 1991, recorder from 1995-2007, deputy judge of the High Court
High Court
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 from 1998-2007, and judge of the High Court of Justice
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(Queen's Bench Division) since 2007. Foskett is the editor of the leading text on the English law of compromise.
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