Patrick Garland (judge)

Sir Patrick Neville Garland (22 July 1929 – 6 August 2023) was a British barrister and judge. He was a judge of the High Court (Queen’s Bench Division) from 1985 to 2002.

Educated at Uppingham School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Garland was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1953. In 1972, he was appointed a recorder and a Queen's Counsel. He was appointed a Justice of the High Court on 14 October 1985 and received the customary knighthood on 19 February 1986. He was appointed a Presiding Judge of the North Eastern Circuit in 1990. He retired on 14 October 2002.

Garland was an honorary fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and a member of the Free Speech Union's legal advisory council.

Sir Patrick Garland died on 6 August 2023, at the age of 94.