Editing John Kay (judge) (section)

==Career==
After being called to the bar in 1968 following a brief stint as a schoolteacher, he became a [[King's Counsel|Queen's Counsel]] in 1984 and was named to the [[High Court of Justice of England and Wales]] in 1992.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Kay, Rt Hon. Sir John (William), (13 Sept. 1943–2 July 2004), a Lord Justice of Appeal, since 2000 |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-22653 |url-access=subscription |access-date=25 September 2022 |website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO |year=2007 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U22653|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1 }}</ref>

On the Court of Appeal he upheld the conviction of mass murderer [[Jeremy Bamber]] in 2002, perhaps his most celebrated case. He subsequently overturned the murder conviction of [[Sally Clark]], accused of killing her two young sons, and dismissed the posthumous appeal in the name of the executed [[Ruth Ellis]] on largely technical grounds.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=6 July 2004 |title=Obituary: Sir John Kay |url=http://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/jul/07/guardianobituaries |access-date=25 September 2022 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref>