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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Infobox Judge Sir Brian Frederick James Langstaff (born 30 April 1948), styled The Hon. Mr Justice Langstaff, is former a judge of the High Court of England and Wales.

He was educated at George Heriot's School, Edinburgh, and then at St Catharine's College, Cambridge.[1]

He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1971 and became a bencher there in 2001. He was made a QC in 1994, and was appointed a judge of the High Court of Justice in 2005 and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division.[2] He retired from the High Court in May 2018.

In February 2018 it was announced that he would be the Chair of the Infected Blood Inquiry which became officially established on 2 July 2018.[3] In July 2022, the Inquiry published an interim report and Langstaff concluded that the 4,000 victims were provisionally entitled to £100,000 each and the payments ought to be made quickly.[4][5]

Notable cases

  • Thompson v Arnold (2007) Legal case concerning damages already awarded where death ensued
  • Van Wees v Karkour (2007) Road traffic accident personal injury case with significance for the assessment of damages

References

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  1. ‘LANGSTAFF, Hon. Sir Brian (Frederick James)’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014
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