Geoffrey Cox (British politician)
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Geoffrey Cox QC MP |
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Geoffrey Cox QC MP
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Member of Parliament for Torridge and West Devon |
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Assumed office 5 May 2005 |
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| Preceded by | John Burnett |
| Majority | 18,403 (32.5%) |
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30 April 1960 Wroughton, Wiltshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Jeanie Cox |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | Downing College, Cambridge |
| Website | www |
Charles Geoffrey Cox,QC, MP (born 30 April 1960) is an English barrister who, as a Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP), has been representing the constituency of Torridge and West Devon since 2005.
Born in the Wiltshire village of Wroughton, Cox was educated at King's College, Taunton, and Downing College, Cambridge, where he read Law and Classics.
Called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1982, he started practice as a barrister and, in 1992, co-founded Thomas More Chambers, serving as its Head of Chambers. He was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 2003.
For part of his career as a barrister, Cox was Standing Counsel to the government of the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius. His cases include "civil fraud and asset recovery, commercial, human rights, defamation, and judicial review actions". He has frequently appeared as leading counsel in the Supreme Court or the Privy Council and he is increasingly instructed to lead in commercial actions and arbitrations overseas, appearing in the DIFC, Mauritius and the Cayman Islands.
His criminal cases have included the Jubilee line corruption trial, representing the controversial multi-millionaire Nicholas van Hoogstraten, representing Virendra Rastogi the owner of RBG Resources and successfully defending Kingsman Darren Fallon of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment, who had been accused of War Crimes related to the death of Baha Mousa. His practice has also included a wide range of commercial, human rights and constitutional cases both in the UK and overseas. In 2014, Cox successfully defended the former Premier (and current Leader of the Opposition) of the Cayman Islands, McKeeva Bush, on corruption and Misuse of Office charges. In March 2015, Cox successfully defended the deputy Editor of The Sun Geoff Webster in a trial of 4 journalists resulting from Operation Elveden. The jury had to decide at what point the behaviour of those on trial could be considered a criminal rather than a serious disciplinary matter and even the lawyers found this difficult to define. Cox subsequently publicly criticized the vagueness of the law and its disproportionate use which led to the prosecution.
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