Sir Peter Nicholas Francis is a British retired High Court judge.

[2] Francis was called to the Bar by Middle Temple in 1981, and became a King's Counsel in 2002.

He specialised in family law, and became head of chambers at 29 Bedford Row in 2002.

He would later be appointed as a High Court judge in 2016 and assigned to the Family Division by the Lord Chief Justice.

He received the customary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II on16th of December 2016.