After going to school in Worcester, Sir Julian Flaux studied law at Worcester College, Oxford, where he was awarded BA and BCL degrees. He was called to the Bar in 1978, and practised commercial law at 7 King’s Bench Walk from 1979 to 2007, specialising in insurance and reinsurance, shipping, international trade, and professional negligence. Sir Julian became a QC in 1994, and he was a Queen’s Bench Judge from 2007 to 2016, including a year as Judge in charge of the Commercial Court from 2014 to 2015. He was President of the Special Immigration & Appeals Commission in 2016, and was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal in the same year. Sir Julian was appointed Supervising Lord Justice of the Commercial Court in Court in 2020. As Chancellor of the High Court from 2021, he was head of the Chancery Division and had overall responsibility for the Business & Property Courts. He retired in November 2021.

Sir Julian enjoys walking and, in his more sedentary leisure hours, reading and opera