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Coleridge was educated at Cranleigh School, a boarding independent school in the large village of Cranleigh in Surrey, followed by The College of Law, in London. Sir Paul Coleridge was called to the bar at Middle Temple in He was in practice at the Queen Elizabeth Building from to and to , serving as international legal adviser to Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza in Lugano, Switzerland in the intervening period.

He became a Queen"s Counsel in On 28 September , he was appointed a High Court judge, receiving the customary knighthood, and assigned to the Family Division.

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In , Coleridge established Marriage Foundation, a United Kingdom-based think tank which champions long-lasting stable relationships within marriage. 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. In Coleridge was handed a formal warning from the Judicial Conduct and Investigations Office declaring that his decision to give this interview, and another one in which he discussed the "decline of marriage," was "incompatible with his judicial responsibilities and therefore amounts to judicial misconduct".

He criticised the decision as a "disproportionate and unfair reaction to a few lines in two newspapers" and in April received a reprimand for undermining the judicial disciplinary process.

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In November 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". He said he could have served more time if he had "more solid support" from his colleagues in the judiciary some whom he claimed were too frightened to publicly support his work at the Marriage Foundation.

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