Following an Expression of Interest (EoI) exercise, The Master of the Rolls has appointed Mr Justice Michael Green as a High Court Judge member of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee (CPRC) for three years commencing 1 November 2026.

The CPRC is a non-departmental public body. It was established under the Civil Procedure Act 1997 (CPA 1997) to make rules of court, setting out the practice and procedure, for the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal, the High Court and the County Court.

The Lady Chief Justice has the power (under the CPA 1997) to appoint judicial members to the CPRC and that power has been delegated to the Master of the Rolls, Head of Civil Justice and statutory Chair of the CPRC.

Mr Justice Michael Green

Mr Justice Michael Green studied Law at Jesus College, Cambridge and he was called to the Bar by Lincoln’s Inn in 1987. He had a broad commercial and chancery litigation practice with an emphasis on company, insolvency, financial services and tax. He took silk in 2009. He acted in many international cases and was called to the Bars of the Cayman Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, British Virgin Islands, Samoa and Uganda for specific cases. For over 11 years, he was on the Attorney General’s A Panel of Treasury Counsel, handling directors’ disqualification, public interest winding up and tax evasion matters.

He was appointed as a Deputy High Court Judge in 2018. In 2019, he sat as a High Court Judge in the Commercial Court of the British Virgin Islands. He was appointed as a High Court Judge in the Chancery Division in November 2019. Since 1 October 2024 he has been Business and Property Courts Supervising Judge for the Midland Circuit.

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