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Career
The son of David and Hana Floyd, Floyd was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his degree in Natural Sciences and Law. He was called to the Bar from the Inner Temple in 1975 and became a Bencher of his inn in 2001. In 1988 he was called to the Bar of the Republic of Ireland and in 1992 was appointed a Queen's Counsel. He was an Assistant Recorder from 1994 to 2000 and a Recorder from 2000 to 2007, a Deputy High Court Judge in the Patents Court from 1998 to 2007, and Deputy Chairman of the Copyright Tribunal, 1995 to 2007. In 2007 he was appointed a Justice of the High Court's Chancery Division and received a knighthood.
Other appointments
- 1996–2007: Member, Bar Council Chairman's Arbitration/Conciliation Panel
- 1998–2002: Member, Bar Council Professional Conduct and Complaints Committee
- 2000–2004: Member, Bar Council
- 2003–2004: Bar Council European Committee
- 1999–2004: Chairman, Intellectual Property Bar Association
- 2009– : Chairman, Permanent Exhibition of Legal Costume
Private life
In 1974 Floyd married Rosalind Jane Arscott, and they have one son and two daughters. He is a member of the Garrick Club.
Notes
- ^ 'FLOYD, Hon. Sir Christopher (David), Kt 2007' in Who's Who 2011 (London, A. & C. Black, 2010)