Victoria Sharp
 Dame Victoria Sharp    (Barrister, Judge) | |
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| Born | Victoria Madeleine Sharp 8 February 1956 |
| Alma mater | University of Bristol |
| Religion | Jewish |
Dame Victoria Sharp is the President of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice in England and Wales.[1]
In February 2024, Justice Jeremy Johnson sat with Dame Victoria Sharp, his senior Judge, to decide the fate of the WikiLeaks co-founder, Julian Assange. If extradited to the United States, Assange faces a maximum sentence of 175 years.[2]
Early life
She is the daughter of The Lord Sharp of Grimsdyke. Her twin brother is Richard Sharp, a former Goldman Sachs banker, and former Chairman of the BBC. She is Jewish. She was educated at North London Collegiate School and the University of Bristol.
Career
Victoria Sharp was called to the Bar, Inner Temple in 1979. She became a Recorder in 1998, and a QC in 2001.
She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE), as is customary, on her appointment as a Justice of the High Court on 13 January 2009.
She was Presiding Judge of the Western Circuit from 2012 to 2013, and was appointed a Lady Justice of Appeal in 2013. She became Vice-President of the Queen's Bench Division on 1 January 2016, succeeding Sir Nigel Davis. She became President of the Queen's Bench Division from 23 June 2019 succeeding Sir Brian Leveson.
Personal life
Victoria Sharp married a doctor; she had four children within five years. Nevertheless, she remained in full-time law practice during those years, not taking leave. "She was convinced that if she had not dedicated herself to her job as she did by rejecting any leave on the birth of any of her children, she would have been significantly disadvantaged; as she puts it, if you were not there in Chambers, you did not receive briefs and you had no job."
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:Assange Final Appeal Day 2 – Your Man in the Public Gallery | blog post | 29 February 2024 | Craig Murray | Initially US authorities were keen to downplay the possible sentence, but have radically changed tack and now emphasise 30 to 40 years as the norm, which is in effect a rest of life sentence. That shift, together with the refusal so far to rule out the death penalty, gives a measure of the ruthlessness with which the CIA is pursuing the extradition of Julian Assange. |
| Document:Assange Final Appeal – Your Man in the Public Gallery | blog post | 21 February 2024 | Craig Murray | The indictment describes Wikileaks as a “non-state hostile intelligence agency”. That was plainly an accusation of espionage. This is self-evidently a politically motivated prosecution for a political offence. |
References
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