Sir Robert Michael Owen FRSA (born 19 September 1944) is a former British judge of the High Court of England and Wales.
He was appointed a Recorder in 1987, being qualified as a deputy High Court judge from 1994, and made a Queen's Counsel in 1988.
[1] He was appointed a Justice of the High Court on 15 January 2001,[2] receiving the customary knighthood, and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division.
From 2005 to 2008, he served as a presiding judge for the Western Circuit, and he has been a member of the Judicial College board since 2011.
[1] Owen chaired the 2015 inquiry into the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, which found that Andrey Lugovoy and Dmitry Kovtun were responsible for the assassination.