Peter Millett, Baron Millett

Who is Peter Millett, Baron Millett?

Peter Julian Millett, Baron Millett, PC, QC, is a Non-permanent judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal and a former judge and barrister of the United Kingdom.

The son of Denis and Adele Millett, he was educated at Harrow School, London, and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he received a Master of Arts degree in classics and law in 1954. From 1955 to 1957 he served as a Flying Officer in the Royal Air Force. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by Queen Mary, University of London in 2012.

Millett was called to the Bar at Middle Temple in 1955. In 1959, he came to Lincoln's Inn, where he was appointed a Bencher in 1980. From 1958 to 1986 he practised at the Chancery Bar and was examiner and lecturer in practical conveyancing at the Council of Legal Education from 1962 to 1976. Between 1967 and 1973, Millett was junior counsel at the Department of Trade and Industry in chancery matters, and between 1971 and 1975 member of the General Council of the Bar.

He was a member of the Law Commission working party on co-ownership of the matrimonial home in 1972 and 1973 and appointed a Queen's Counsel in the following year. From 1977 to 1982, Millett was member of the Department of Trade Insolvency Law Review Committee, and became a judge of the High Court of Justice in 1986, a post he held until 1994. He was a Lord Justice of Appeal between 1994 and 1998 and has been a Non-permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal since 2000.