Fountain Court Chambers

Lord Wilson is a former Justice of the UK Supreme Court and joined Fountain Court as an arbitrator in 2020, having spent 27 years of his career on the Bench.

Lord Reed, President of the Supreme Court, paid tribute to Lord Wilson on his retirement from the Supreme Court, referring to his “many important judgments” in family law and his “notable judgments on a range of subjects, including tax law, employment law, social security law, and the law of contract” and “important judgments raising issues of constitutional and administrative law”. He also commented that “an outstanding lawyer such as Nicholas can use his skills in any area of the law”.

Nicholas accepts appointments as arbitrator across a range of areas, both in the UK and overseas.

He was called to the Bar in 1967, after gaining the highest honours as a law student at Oxford and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1987. In 1993, he became a judge of the Family Division of the High Court and in 2005 was appointed to the Court of Appeal, before being appointed Justice of the UK Supreme Court in 2011.