Colman Treacy
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The Right Honourable Sir Colman Treacy |
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| Lord Justice of Appeal | |
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Assumed office 1 October 2012 |
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Judge of the High Court of Justice |
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In office 1 October 2002 – 1 October 2012 |
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Colman Maurice Treacy 28 July 1949 |
| Spouse(s) | Jane Hooper |
| Alma mater | Jesus College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Judge |
| Profession | Barrister |
Sir Colman Maurice Treacy, PC (born 28 July 1949) is a Lord Justice of Appeal. He is styled Lord Justice Treacy. Prior to this he was a barrister in Birmingham, where he is President of the Birmingham Law Society. He has presided over a number of criminal trials, including those of an Afghan warlord, Faryadi Sarwar Zardad, and two of the killers of Stephen Lawrence.
Treacy attended Stonyhurst College, a Jesuit independent boarding school in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire, and studied Classics on an Open Scholarship at Jesus College, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1971, and appointed Queen's Counsel (QC) in 1990.
Treacy practised mainly in criminal law in the criminal courts of Birmingham. In 2002, he prosecuted two suspected Islamic terrorists accused of plotting to cause terrorist explosions in the UK, before Mr Justice Hughes. One of the accused, Moinul Abedin, was convicted and sentenced to twenty years, while the other was acquitted.
He was appointed Assistant Recorder in 1988 and Recorder in 1991, a post he retained until his appointment to the High Court on 1 October 2002, whereupon he received the customary knighthood. From 2006 to 2010, he was the Presiding Judge of the Midland Circuit. He is now chairman of the Sentencing Council for England and Wales. On 1 October 2012, he was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal, and he was appointed to the Privy Council on 7 November 2012.
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