Hon. Paul Matthews

HHJ Paul Matthews was educated at St Peter’s School, Bournemouth, and read law at University College London, before postgraduate study at Oxford. He was originally an academic lawyer but went into practice, eventually becoming a partner in a niche firm of litigation solicitors in the City of London. Subsequently he combined practice as a consultant at a large private client firm with lecturing at King’s College London. In 1996 he was awarded the degree of LLD by the University of London, based on examination of his published work. He has held visiting appointments at St Edmund Hall Oxford, the City University, the University of Aix-Marseille, the Institute of Law in Jersey and the University of Liechtenstein. In 2002 he was appointed Coroner for the City of London. In 2008 he became a deputy master of the High Court, Chancery Division, in 2010 he was appointed a Recorder, in 2014 a judge of the Court of Trusts and Fiduciary Relations of the Republic of San Marino (all part-time). Then, in 2015 he became a fulltime chancery master. He is the author or co-author of a number of works, including Trusts: Migration and Change of Proper Law, Trust and Estate Disputes, The Jersey Law of Trusts, The Jersey Law of Property, Matthews and Malek on Disclosure, Underhill and Hayton’s Law of Trusts and Trustees, and Jervis on Coroners. He was formerly an editor of Hill and Redman’s Law of Landlord and Tenant. He has a strong interest in comparative law.