Nicholas Mostyn
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The Honourable Mr Justice Mostyn |
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Judge of the High Court of Justice Family Division |
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Assumed office 20 April 2010 |
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| Appointed by | Elizabeth II |
| Preceded by | Mr Justice Bennett |
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| Born |
13 July 1957 Lagos, Nigeria |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater |
Ampleforth College University of Bristol Inns of Court School of Law |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Sir Nicholas Anthony Joseph Ghislain Mostyn (born 13 July 1957 in Lagos, Nigeria), styled The Hon. Mr Justice Mostyn, is a British High Court judge, assigned to the Family Division.
The son of a British American Tobacco executive from North Wales, Mostyn was born in Nigeria, and grew up there and in Venezuela and El Salvador. After his parents divorced, he was educated at Ampleforth College alongside Edward Stourton where they won the Observer Mace debating prize. He then studied law at the University of Bristol.
With pupillage at Middle Temple, he was called to the bar in 1980, and initially undertook County Court domestic violence cases. He took silk in 1997. In 2000/1 he was on the losing side of the husband farmer in the White v White case, where the judge ruled that "there should be no bias in favour of the money-earner and against the home-maker and the child-carer."
After this his career took off, and after winning a number of notable cases including representing the wife of footballer Ray Parlour, and winning the 1000 day marriage case for the wife of a leading City of London fund manager where no children where involved, he earned himself the nickname of "Mr Payout." At the height of his earnings, he is said to have earned £500 an hour, and was retained by Fiona Shackleton in Paul McCartney's divorce case with Heather Mills. Mostyn would also undertake pro bono cases where he thought there was an important issue of law involved, particularly those involving the Child Support Agency and its problems:
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