Stephen is a former pupil and is currently a Justice of the High Court, sitting in the Family Division, the Family Court, the Court of Protection and the Administrative Court of the King’s Bench Division.
In 2024 he was appointed as a Lord Justice of Appeal, an appointment which he will take up in 2025. He is a Bencher of Inner Temple. When he was at the Bar he was, for two years, Chairman of the Family Law Bar Association (FLBA).