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Sonia Harris

Sonia Harris (born 12 September 1974) (styled The Hon. Ms Justice Harris) is a British High Court Judge.[2]

The Honourable
Sonia Harris
Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom
Justice of the High Court
Incumbent
Assumed office
30 September 2024[1]
Appointed byCharles III
Personal details
Born (1974-09-12) September 12, 1974 (age 50)
Coventry, UK
Alma materOxford University
University of British Columbia

Education

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Harris attended Coventry Blue Coat Church of England School.[3] She graduated with a law degree from Christ Church, Oxford and earned a master's degree from the University of British Columbia.[4] Harris had a visiting appointment at University of Victoria, Canada and University of New South Wales, Australia supported by a British Academy research grant.[5]

Career

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Academic

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Harris was called to the bar (Lincoln's Inn) in 1998. From 1999 to 2006 she was a senior lecturer at Durham University.[6] From 2006 to 2014 she was Reader and then Professor of Family Law and Policy at Birmingham School of Law.[7] Between 2012 and 2014 she was head of Birmingham University's Centre for Employability, Professional Legal Education and Research (CEPLER).[8] While at Birmingham she was an Honorary Door Tenant at St Philips Chambers.[9] In 2008 she became director of the Birmingham Law School LLM Programme.[10] Between January and April 2010, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Stockholm.[11] In 2012 she was appointed special advisor to the House of Lords' Select Committee on Adoption.[12] She is an honorary Professor at Birmingham University.[13]

Judge

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In 2010 Harris was appointed as a Deputy District Judge. In 2014 she was appointed as District Judge.[14] In 2018 she was appointed as Circuit Judge and was authorised to sit as a High Court Judge in the Family Division. In 2019 she was appointed the designated family judge for Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire. In 2024 she was appointed Senior Circuit Judge and designated family judge at Wolverhampton Combined Court Centre.[15] Harris was on the advisory group of the Children's Rights Judgement.[16] She is a member of the United Kingdom Association of Women Judges and the International Association of Women Judges.[17]

On 30 September 2024, Harris was appointed a judge of the Family Division of the High Court following several retirements.[18]

Publications

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Author

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  • Family Law: Text, Cases and Materials with Joanna Miles (2011) Pub. OUP ISBN 9780199563821
  • Aboriginal Child Welfare, Self-Government and the Rights of the Indigenous Children: Protecting the Vulnerable Under International Law (2012) Pub. Routledge ISBN 9781409419549

Contributor

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  • Accommodating Cultural Diversity ed. Stephen Tierney (2007) Pub. Routledge ISBN 9781317185918
  • Judicial Reasoning under the UK Human Rights Act Ed. Helen Fenwick, Gavin Phillipson, Roger Masterman (2009) Pub. CUP ISBN 9781139466769
  • The Legal, Medical and Cultural Regulation of the Body Ed. Stephen W Smith, Ronan Deazley (2009) Pub. Routledge ISBN 9781138260320
  • Feminist Judgements: From Theory to Practice ed. Clare McGlynn, Erika Rackley, Rosemary Hunter (2010) Pub. Bloomsbury ISBN 9781847317278
  • Fifty years of Family Law: Essays for Stephen Cretney Ed. Rebecca Probert, Chris Baron (2012) Pub. Cambridge ISBN 9781780680521
  • The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Commentary" Ed. John Tobin (2019) Pub. OUP ISBN 9780191544170

Editor

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  • The Futures of Legal Education and the Legal Profession with Hilary Sommerlad (2015) Pub. Hart Publishing ISBN 9781849466554

Articles

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Harris has contributed articles to:

References

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  1. ^ "Appointment of a High Court Judge: Harris". judiciary.uk. Retrieved 2024-07-20.
  2. ^ "Appointment of a High Court Judge: Harris". judiciary.uk. Retrieved 2024-07-20.
  3. ^ "Sonia Harris-Short". inventaire.io. Retrieved 2024-07-20.
  4. ^ "New appointments of High Court judges". judicialappointments.gov.uk. Retrieved 2024-07-20.
  5. ^ Fenwick, Helen (2007). Judicial reasoning under the UK human rights act. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. vii. ISBN 978-0-521-87633-9.
  6. ^ "Institute of International Public Law". American Journal of International Law (Vol. 98 No. 2 ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. April 2004. p. 8.
  7. ^ "Staff profile: Sonia Harris-Short". Holdsworth. Birmingham, UK: University of Birmingham. Spring 2009. p. 4.
  8. ^ "Birmingham graduates earn junior lawyers award". kidderminstershuttle.co.uk. 2013-07-05. Retrieved 2024-07-20.
  9. ^ McGlynn, Clare; Rackley, Erika; Hunter, Rosemary (2010). Feminist Judgements: From Theory to Judgements. London, UK: Bloomsbury. p. 340. ISBN 9781847317278.
  10. ^ "Staff profile: Sonia Harris-Short". Holdsworth. Birmingham, UK: University of Birmingham. Spring 2009. p. 4.
  11. ^ "Staff profile: Sonia Harris-Short". Holdsworth. Birmingham, UK: University of Birmingham. Spring 2009. p. 4.
  12. ^ Select committee on Adoption legislation (2013). Adoption: Pre-legislative Scrutiny, Report, 2nd Report of Session 2012-13,Volume 127 (Report). London, UK: The Stationery Office. p. 80. ISBN 9780108550409. "Specialist Advisor: Professor Sonia Harris-Short, Professor of Family Law and Policy, University of Birmingham
  13. ^ "New appointments of High Court judges". judicialappointments.gov.uk. Retrieved 2024-07-20.
  14. ^ "CEPLER Professor becomes Judge". Holdsworth. Birmingham, UK: University of Birmingham. Summer 2014. p. 7.
  15. ^ "Senior Circuit Judge, Designated Family Judge Appointment: Harris". judiciary.uk. Retrieved 2024-07-20.
  16. ^ Stalford, Linda (2017). Rewriting Children's Rights Judgements. Oxford, UK: Hart. p. v. ISBN 9781782259251.
  17. ^ "Events". ukawj.org. Retrieved 2024-07-20.
  18. ^ "Appointment of a High Court Judge: Harris". judiciary.uk. Retrieved 2024-07-20.
  19. ^ Sonia Harris-Short (2012). "Aboriginal Child WElfare Life". British Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 82 No. 1 ed.). Oxford, UK: OUP. p. 525.
  20. ^ "Sonia Harris-Short". ssrn.com. Retrieved 2024-07-20.
  21. ^ Sonia Harris-Short (December 2015). "Making and Breaking Family Life". Journal of Law and Society (Vol. 35 No. 4 ed.). Maryland, USA: Wiley. p. 594.
  22. ^ Sonia Harris-Short (October 2003). "Judicial Approaches to the Human Rights Acts". The International and Comparative Law Quarterly (Vol. 52 No. 4 ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 549.
  23. ^ Sonia Harris-Short (April 2005). "influencing traits before birth". International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family (Vol. 19 No. 1 ed.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. p. 130.
  24. ^ "Staff profile: Sonia Harris-Short". Holdsworth. Birmingham, UK: University of Birmingham. Spring 2009. p. 4.
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