Timothy Fancourt

Sir Timothy Miles Fancourt (born 30 August 1964), judicially styled as Mr Justice Fancourt, is a judge of the English High Court.

Personal life and education
Fancourt was born on 30 August 1964 and attended Whitgift School in Croydon. He studied law at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He has returned to Caius to preside over College moot trial competitions.

He married Emily Windsor in 2000, with whom he has a daughter.

Career
He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1987. He initially became a tenant of London chambers at 11 Kings Bench Walk, latterly Falcon Chambers. As a barrister he specialised in real property and landlord and tenant law. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2003.

In 1996 he was elected to the Bar Council of England and Wales. He was appointed as a Recorder in 2009 sitting at Harrow Crown Court until 2017. In 2012 he was appointed chairman of the Chancery Bar Association.

He was appointed a deputy High Court judge in 2013 and as a High Court Judge assigned to the Chancery Division in 2017. He received the customary knighthood in May 2019. In 2021, he was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster.

Fancourt is a co-editor of Muir Watt & Moss: Agricultural Holdings.