Lord George Leggatt was educated at Eton and at King’s College, Cambridge, where he studied philosophy. After further study at Harvard, he taught at the University of Chicago Law School and worked as a lawyer in New York. Lord Leggatt was called to the Bar in 1983, and was a member of Brick Court Chambers for twenty-seven years, practising in banking, insurance and reinsurance, and international trade, among other areas. He became Queen’s Counsel in 1997. When he was appointed as a Queen’s Bench Judge in 2012, he became the first - and, to date, only - child to follow a parent onto the Commercial Court Bench: his father, Sir Andrew, had been a Queen’s Bench Judge and Commercial Judge from 1982 to 1990, and a Lord Justice of Appeal from 1900 to 1997. Lord Leggatt joined the Court of Appeal himself in 2018. He has been a Justice of the Supreme Court since 2020.

Lord Leggatt enjoys cooking and wine, and is interested in Greece and philosophy.