Gary Hickinbottom

Judge, Person

1955 –

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Who is Gary Hickinbottom?

Sir Gary Robert Hickinbottom, styled The Hon. Mr Justice Hickinbotton, is a British judge. In 2008, he became the fourth solicitor to be appointed a High Court judge, after Michael Sachs in 1993, Lawrence Collins in 2000, and Henry Hodge in 2004.

He was admitted as a solicitor in 1981, and later became a partner at McKenna & Co. He became a recorder in 1994 and then a circuit judge in 2001. He became Chief Social Security Commissioner and Child Support Commissioner in 2003, and Chief Pension Appeal Commissioner. He has also sat as a deputy High Court judge.

On 16 July 2007, sitting as a deputy High Court Judge, he upheld an application for judicial review against the decision to slaughter Shambo, a sacred black Friesian bull at the Hindu Skanda Vale Temple near Llanpumsaint in Wales which tested positive for bovine tuberculosis, holding that the Welsh government had failed to carry out the balancing exercise required by Article 9 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. His ruling was overturned by the Court of Appeal one week later, and the bull was slaughtered within days.

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Dec 22, 1955
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on July 23, 2013

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