David Kitchin, an intellectual property barrister before becoming a High Court judge in 2005 and Lord Justice of Appeal in 2011, will have spent five years at the top court. In his most recent decision, he gave a dissenting judgment in last week’s landmark nuisance case involving Tate Modern’s viewing platform which overlooks a block of luxury flats, Fearn v Tate Gallery.
Lord Kitchin said: ‘It has been an enormous privilege and pleasure to serve as a full time Justice of the court. This is the right time for me to step down and it will give me an opportunity to spend more time with my family and to pursue other interests.’
Outside of court, he sits on the advisory board of the Science Museum in London, and also chairs the advisory council of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary University of London.
