Sir Paul James Duke Coleridge (born 30 May 1949) is a retired judge of the High Court of England and Wales.
He was in practice at the Queen Elizabeth Building from 1970 to 1985 and 1989 to 2000, serving as international legal adviser to Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza in Lugano, Switzerland in the intervening period.
In an interview, Sir Paul Coleridge angered gay rights campaigners when he said Government same-sex marriage plans were a "minority issue" because it affected "0.1%" of the population during a time in which society was facing a "crisis of family breakdown".
He criticised the decision as a "disproportionate and unfair reaction to a few lines in two newspapers"[6] and in April 2014 received a reprimand for undermining the judicial disciplinary process.
[7] In November 2013 Sir Paul Coleridge announced his retirement from being a judge in order to "concentrate on his foundation" adding that he would be more free to be "outspoken".