Master
Victoria McCloud
Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom
King's Bench Master
Assumed office
2010
MonarchCharles III
Personal details
BornEngland
Domestic partnerAnnie McCloud
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
City University
OccupationJudge
ProfessionBarrister and Chartered Psychologist

Victoria McCloud is a British judge.[1] She was the youngest Master in the High Court of England and Wales when she was appointed in 2006 as a deputy and then as a full judge in 2010. She is also a chartered psychologist and legal author.

Education

McCloud graduated from Christ Church, Oxford in 1990 with a degree in Experimental Psychology and obtained a doctorate in 1993 in human visual system science.[2] A year later, she completed a law conversion course and was called to the bar in 1995, where she practised under her maiden name of Victoria Williams.[3]

Career

McCloud had previously been a barrister at Coram Chambers.[4] From 2006, she was a Deputy Costs Judge / Taxing Master. She was appointed a Queen's Bench Master in June 2010 and also re-appointed as a Costs Judge / Taxing Master in 2017.[5]

McCloud wrote the first five editions of the Civil Procedure Handbook,[4] the Surveillance and Intelligence Law Handbook for OUP (as Victoria Williams),[6] and the White Book.[7]

McCloud is a Master of the Senior Courts, Queen's Bench Division. She was appointed in 2010.[7] McCloud was the youngest ever Master in the High Court when appointed, and the second woman Master and the first trans person.[7]

In 2016 McCloud began consulting with professionals working in the historic abuse field, hoping to improve the experience of justice for victims as well as for defendants and insurers. She set up the Historic Abuse Lawyers' forum (HALF) to look at the possibility of alternative approaches to trial and resolution. She has promoted the ideas that in the historic abuse field the court should try claims in a way that would minimize causing any further harm.[2]

McCloud has presided over high-profile cases which have involved Donald Trump,[8] Jeremy Corbyn,[9] Katie Price,[10] and Andrew Mitchell MP.[11]

Other legal judicial decisions by her include asbestos related disease cases, such as Yates v HMRC,[12] constitutional rights of access to justice and access to court proceedings,[13] modern slavery,[14] defamation law,[15] equitable interpleader,[16] and national security.[17] Her decision in Warsama and Gannon v FCO and others considered UK constitutional issues under the Bill of Rights 1689, Parliamentary Privilege, free speech and human rights.[18][19]

Personal life

McCloud, who is also a chartered psychologist, authored (as Victoria Williams) an academic letter in 2003 to a Royal College of Psychiatry journal that considered standards of care for transgender people and highlighted errors in a paper published in the journal.[20]

She lives in London with National Health Service psychiatrist Annie McCloud,[21] who has been her civil partner since 2006.[22]

References

  1. ↑ "judiciary". judiciary.uk. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Victoria McCloud". www.apil.org.uk. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
  3. ↑ "Official Announcement of appointment of Victoria McCloud formerly Victoria Williams as a Master". The Times. Times Newspapers. 14 June 2010. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  4. 1 2 McCloud, Victoria (2011). Civil Procedure Handbook 2011/2012. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199698141.
  5. ↑ "Biographies: Queen's Bench Masters". Courts and Tribunals Judiciary. Judiciary. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
  6. ↑ "The Surveillance And Intelligence Law Handbook". goodreads.com. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  7. 1 2 3 Women at the Inns of Court (PDF), London, UK: Inner Temple Library, 2016, p. 17, retrieved 12 June 2018
  8. ↑ "judiciary.uk". www.judiciary.uk. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  9. ↑ "theguardian.com". The Guardian. 20 July 2016. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  10. ↑ "Katie Price trial to go ahead". Belfasttelegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  11. ↑ "Civil Litigation Brief". www.civillitigationbrief.com. 26 September 2013. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  12. ↑ "Civil Litigation Brief". www.civillitigationbrief.com. 15 July 2014. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  13. ↑ "Dring v Cape". www.leighday.co.uk. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  14. ↑ "Ajayi". www.theguardian.co.uk. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  15. ↑ "Zahawi". BBC News. 4 May 2017. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  16. ↑ "Equitable Interpleader filling the gap". civillitigationbrief.com. 18 February 2018. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  17. ↑ "Abdule v UK state". bailii.org. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  18. ↑ "Warsama and Gannon v FCO". bailii.org. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  19. ↑ "Parliamentary Privilege Warsama and Gannon v FCO". constiequitylandlatte.wordpress.com. 15 June 2018. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  20. ↑ Williams, Victoria (February 2003). "cambridge.org". Psychiatric Bulletin. 27 (2): 77–78. doi:10.1192/pb.27.2.77-b. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  21. ↑ "Royal College of Psychiatrists Faculty and Executive". www.rcpsych.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  22. ↑ Victoria Helen McCloud. www.whosewho.com. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U253743. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
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