Nigel Sweeney
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The Honourable Mr Justice Sweeney |
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| High Court Judge | |
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Assumed office 1 October 2008 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
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18 March 1954 United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of Nottingham |
Sir Nigel Hamilton Sweeney (born 18 March 1954), styled The Hon. Mr Justice Sweeney, is a High Court judge.
Sweeney studied law at the University of Nottingham under Sir John Cyril Smith. He was called to the bar in 1976 at the Middle Temple, where he was made a bencher in 1997, and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2000. He was appointed to the High Court (Queen's Bench) in September 2008.
Prior to being appointed a High Court judge, Sweeney was a barrister in the United Kingdom, practising from 6 King's Bench Walk. He prosecuted a number of notable criminal trials, including the perpetrators of the 1984 IRA Brighton bombing and the attempted bombings of 21 July 2005, Neo-Nazi terrorist David Copeland and murderers Michael Stone and Kamel Bourgass.
He presided over the trial in February and March 2013 of former Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Chris Huhne MP and his former wife, Vicky Pryce, for perverting the course of justice contrary to common law. He sentenced another MP Dennis MacShane for fraud in the aftermath of the 2009 parliamentary expenses scandal.
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