After being educated at Northampton School for Boys, Mr Justice Dove read Law at St Catherine’s College Oxford, and having studied the Bar finals, was called to the Bar at Inner Temple in 1986.

He was a member of the Planning and Environment Bar association, the Administrative Bar association and the Compulsory Purchase association.

Prior to taking silk, he served on the panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown (Treasury Council) in the provinces. He sat as an immigration judge, Recorder in the Crown and County Courts, Deputy High Court judge and occasional inspector for Town and Village Green enquiries until he was appointed a High Court Judge on 1st October 2014.

Mr Justice Dove was appointed to sit in the Queen’s Bench Division and is nominated to sit in the Administrative court, the Planning court and SIAC. Since January 2018 he has been a Presiding Judge on the Northern Circuit

He is a bencher at the Inner Temple and from 2013 – 2014 was an Honorary professor of Law at Birmingham University. In September 2016 he was made an Honorary Fellow of St Catherine’s college, Oxford.