Stephen Cobb (judge)

Stephen William Scott Cobb (born 12 April 1962), styled The Right Honourable Lord Justice Cobb, is an English Court of Appeal judge.

In December 2012, he was appointed a High Court judge with effect from 11 January 2013.

He was assigned to the Family Division and received the customary knighthood in the 2013 Special Honours.

Cobb was the Chairman of the Family Law Bar Association for two years from 2010 to 2011.

[5] In 2015, sitting in the Court of Protection, he ruled that a woman with six children and an IQ of 70 should be sterilized because another pregnancy would be a "significantly life-threatening event" for her and the foetus due to her having a very thin uterus.