Lord Justice Dove
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Lord Justice Ian Dove was called to the Bar (Inner Temple) in 1986 and took Silk in 2003.
He was appointed as a Fee-Paid Immigration Adjudicator (now a Fee-Paid Judge of the First-Tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)) in 2000, a Recorder in 2003 and authorised as a Deputy High Court Judge to hear cases under section 9(1) of the Senior Courts Act 1981 in 2008.
He was appointed as a High Court Judge to the Queen’s Bench Division (now the King’s Bench Division) in 2014, and as a Member of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission in 2015. From 2018 to 2021 he served as a Presiding Judge on the Northern Circuit.
He was appointed the President of the Upper Tribunal, Immigration and Asylum Chamber in October 2022, and in February 2025 he was appointed the Deputy Senior President of Tribunals. He became a Lord Justice of Appeal in November 2025.
Lord Justice Dove is a Bencher at the Inner Temple and from 2013-2014 was an Honorary Professor of Law at Birmingham University. In September 2016 he was made an Honorary Fellow of St Catherine’s College, Oxford.