Dame Amanda Yip is in the ascendancy. She was appointed to the High Court Bench in 2017 at the tender age of 48. At the beginning of next month she takes on the office of Deputy Senior Presiding Judge. I well recall her judgment in Young v Downey [2019] EWHC 3508 (QB), [2019] All ER (D) 95 (Dec). The daughter of a soldier killed by an IRA car bomb detonated in Hyde Park in the summer of 1982 sued the defendant for damages. He declined to participate in the action. The judge dealt superbly with both limitation and liability. She decided that fingerprint evidence found on car-parking tickets incriminated the defendant. Her analysis of relevant expert evidence was exquisite.
Yip J is certain to follow her father, Sir John Kay, up into the Court of Appeal. I see another Dame Sue Carr in the making; there is no higher
