Peter Smith (judge)

Sir Peter Winston Smith , styled The Hon Mr Justice Peter Smith, is a Judge of the High Court of Justice in England and Wales, appointed to that office onApril 2002 and assigned to the Chancery Division. His name is correctly abbreviated in English legal writing as Peter Smith J, and not as Smith J, because there are other senior judges also named Smith.

Smith was born in Taiping, Malaysia to George Arthur Smith and Iris Muriel Smith, while his father was posted abroad. He grew up with five siblings in Hornsea, East Yorkshire, and attended grammar school in nearby Bridlington.

Source: Wikipedia