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Clive Sheldon

Judge and author of 2019 report into abuse in the Football Association

Sir Clive David Sheldon (born 13 October 1966) is a judge of the High Court of England and Wales.

He was educated at The Latymer School, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (BA, 1989) and the University of Pennsylvania (LLM). He was called to the Bar at Inner Temple in 1991. He was a barrister at 11 King's Bench Walk Chambers from 1995 to 2024, becoming a QC in 2011, and a judge of the High Court of Justice (King's Bench Division) in 2024.

Sheldon conducted an enquiry, commissioned by The Football Association, into the United Kingdom football sexual abuse scandal, producing a report dubbed the "Sheldon report" in March 2021.

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