Amanda Yip

Dame Amanda Louise Yip (née Kay), DBE is a British High Court judge.[1]

The Honourable
Mrs Justice Yip
Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom
High Court Judge
King's Bench Division
Assumed office
2017
MonarchCharles III
Personal details
Born
Amanda Louise Kay

(1969-04-23) 23 April 1969
Liverpool[2]
NationalityBritish
SpouseDavid Yip
RelativesSir John Kay (father)
Ben Kay (brother)
Alma materEmmanuel College, Cambridge
OccupationLawyer, judge

Yip was born in Liverpool on the 23rd of April 1969, she is the daughter of Sir John Kay, a Lord Justice of Appeal. Her brother is international rugby union footballer Ben Kay.[3]

She was educated at the Merchant Taylors' Girls' School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where she studied law. She was called to the bar by Gray's Inn in 1991 and practised at Exchange Chambers in Liverpool, specialising in personal injury and clinical negligence work. She was appointed a Recorder in 2009, King's Counsel in 2011, and a deputy High Court judge in 2013.[2]

Yip was appointed a Justice of the High Court in 2017, on the retirement of Mr Justice Wyn Williams, and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division. She received the customary appointment of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire the same year.[4]

She married David Yip in 1991, they have one son and two daughters.[3]

References
  1. "Senior judiciary". Courts and Tribunals Judiciary.
  2. "High Court Judge Appointment: Amanda Yip QC". Exchange Chambers. 1 September 2017.
  3. "Yip, Hon. Dame Amanda Louise, (born 23 April 1969), a Judge of the High Court, Queen's Bench Division, since 2017; Presiding Judge, Northern Circuit, since 2020". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U254197. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
  4. "High Court Judge Appointment (Queen's Bench Division): Yip". Courts and Tribunals Judiciary.
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