Lord Justice Zacaroli
Lord Justice Zacaroli was born in Sutton Coldfield and educated locally at Bishop Walsh comprehensive school. He studied law at Pembroke College, Oxford, where he subsequently became a part-time law tutor from 1987 to 1991.
He was called to the bar (Middle Temple) in 1987 and became a Queen’s Counsel (now King’s Counsel) in 2006. He specialised for most of his career in insolvency, banking and commercial law.
He has been a member of the management committee of the Bar Pro Bono Unit since 2001, the Insolvency Rules Committee since 2012 and the Financial Markets Law Committee since 2015. He was appointed a High Court Judge, Chancery Division, on 13 November 2017. He became a Court of Appeal Judge in October 2024.