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The Right HonourableLord Sales
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Incumbent
Assumed office 11 January 2019
Nominated by	David Gauke
Appointed by	Elizabeth II
Preceded by	Lord Sumption
Lord Justice of Appeal
In office 2014–2019
Personal details
Born	(1962-02-11) 11 February 1962 (age 62)
Alma mater	Churchill College, Cambridge Worcester College, Oxford

Philip James Sales, Lord Sales, PC (born 11 February 1962) is a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. He took office on 14 January 2019.

Early life

He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, Churchill College, Cambridge (BA, 1983), and Worcester College, Oxford (BCL, 1984).

Career

He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1985. In 1997, he was appointed First Junior Treasury Counsel ("Treasury Devil"), a private practitioner barrister who represents the UK government in the civil courts. This caused "consternation" among senior lawyers, according to The Times, due to his young age.

Sales was a practising barrister at 11 King's Bench Walk. At the time of the appointment, there was debate over Sales' appointment. According to The Guardian, an anonymous source referred to 11KBW as a "network of old boys and cronies", and that there was "no coincidence that the appointment came from Lord Irvine's and Tony Blair's old chambers". Acting as a barrister Sales defended the New Labour government's decision against holding a public inquiry into the Iraq War in the High Court in 2005.

He was made a QC in 2006, deputy judge of the High Court from 2004 to 2008, and judge of the High Court of Justice (Chancery Division) since 2008. He was a Lord Justice of Appeal from July 2014.

In 2016, Sales, as a member of the Court of Appeal ruled on 12 August 2016 that 130,000 Labour members who joined the party after 12 January 2016 would not be able to vote in the leadership contest, which over-ruled the previous High Court decision to allow the 130,000 disenfranchised Labour Party members to vote in the 2016 Labour Party leadership election.

In October 2016 Sales was one of the three judges forming the divisional court of the High Court in proceedings concerning the use of the royal prerogative for the issue of notification in accordance with Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. His role in this judgment meant that he appeared in an infamous front-cover of the Daily Mail (Enemies of the People).

Supreme Court

Lord Justice Sales was appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom on 11 January 2019, taking the judicial courtesy title of Lord Sales.

Personal life

Sales married Miranda Wolpert in 1988; they have a son and a daughter.

Arms

Coat of arms of Philip Sales, Lord Sales

Crest Statant upon a balance Sable the pans Or an owl guardant also Or beaked and legged Gules holding in the dexter foot a sprig of oak Vert fructed Or. Escutcheon Per chevron Or and Azure in chief two stacks of three closed books Argent bound Azure garnished and in base three bees one and two volant Or. Motto Semper Perstat Sales

References

1. ^ "Sales, Rt Hon. Lord". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
2. Seldon, Anthony (20 September 2007). Blair's Britain, 1997–2007. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781139468985.
3. Abel, Richard L. (2003). English Lawyers Between Market and State: The Politics of Professionalism. Oxford University Press. p. 146. ISBN 9780198260332.
4. Barnett, Antony; Editor, Public Affairs (5 June 1999). "Job for Irvine friend fuels row over 'Tony's cronies'". The Guardian. {{cite news}}: |last2= has generic name (help)
5. Teher, Abul (13 October 2009). "Treasury QC gets £3m in fees – and we foot the bill". London Evening Standard.
6. Turner, Matt (12 August 2016). "Labour Appeal: Fury as Appeal Court Judge Philip Sales' intimate links to Tony Blair revealed". Evolve Politics.
7. "Labour CAN Ban 130,000 Members From Voting In Leadership Contest, Rules Court of Appeal". The Huffington Post. 12 August 2016. Retrieved on 13 August 2016.
8. Stewart, Heather; Syal, Rajeev; Quinn, Ben (12 July 2016). "Labour executive rules Jeremy Corbyn must be on leadership ballot". Retrieved on 13 August 2016, The Guardian.
9. Bowcott, Owen (28 June 2018). "UK supreme court to get third female justice". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
10. "Lincoln's Inn Great Hall, Ec5 Sales P(relettered)". Baz Manning. 18 May 2015. Retrieved 22 November 2020.

• 1962 births
• Living people
• People educated at Royal Grammar School, Guildford
• Alumni of Churchill College, Cambridge
• Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford
• Fellows of Churchill College, Cambridge
• Members of Lincoln's Inn
• Chancery Division judges
• Judges of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
• Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
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