Lady Justice, the Court of Appeal and Deputy Head of Civil Justice (UK)
Lady Justice Sara Cockerill was sworn in as a Lady Justice of the Court of Appeal in October 2025. She took up her senior leadership role as Deputy Head of Civil Justice in November 2025. Cockerill LJ practised as a barrister 1990- 2017, specialising in commercial cases and in compelled evidence.
She was appointed as a Deputy High Court Judge in 2015, sitting in the King’s Bench Division (specifically in the Administrative Court and the Commercial Court). She became a High Court Judge in 2017, assigned to the King’s Bench Division. She was previously authorised to sit in cases in the Commercial Court, Financial List, the Competition Appeal Tribunal and the Technology and Construction Court as well as in the Administrative Court and other Queen’s Bench work, including crime. She was Judge in Charge of the Commercial Court 2020-2022.
