Liberty Intact

Sir Michael Tugendhat was a Judge of the High Court of England and Wales from 2003 to June 2014. He was a scholar at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge where he graduated in Classics and Philosophy. In 1967-8 he held a Henry Fellowship at Yale University. He practised at the English Bar from 1970 to 2003 specialising in media and commercial law. He was a judge of the Courts of Appeal of Jersey and Guernsey, and was the Judge in Charge of the High Court's Queen's Bench Division civil lists. As a barrister and a judge he was involved in many of the cases in which the law of freedom of expression and privacy were developed in the light of human rights.