[2] He was educated at Charterhouse and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read Modern History.

[5] He was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn in 1986 and joined the London based chambers '7 King's Walk',[6] specialising in shipping, banking, arbitration and Insurance.

[9] He would go on to become a Bencher for Gray's Inn in 2005, a Recorder in 2009,[10] and a Deputy High Court Judge in 2013.

He has been a Judge of the High Court of Justice (King's Bench Division) since 2018,[11] he received the customary knighthood in 2019 form the late Queen Elizabeth II.

[3] Butcher was awarded a PhD by King's College London in 2019 for his thesis on Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd.