Stanley Burnton

Who is Stanley Burnton?

Sir Stanley Jeffrey Burnton is a British lawyer and former Lord Justice of Appeal.

Burnton was educated at Hackney Downs Grammar School and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he read Jurisprudence. He was called to the bar in 1965 and was made a Bencher in 1991. He was appointed as Queen's Counsel in 1982, and was a Recorder from 1994 to 2000. He was appointed a High Court judge on 19 July 2000, receiving the customary knighthood, and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division. He was promoted, being named a Lord Justice of Appeal on 21 April 2008.

Burnton is an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.