While not a Fellow of the College, The Visitor is an important role at the College, to which Lord Sales was invested in 2025.

Lord Sales (Philip Sales) is Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. He was appointed as The Visitor to the College in 2025. He was previously an Honorary Fellow of the College, appointed in 2015.

Lord Sales was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford; Churchill College, Cambridge (BA 1983) and Worcester College, Oxford (BCL 1984). He was called to the Bar, Lincoln’s Inn, 1985; barrister, 1986-2008; First Treasury Junior Counsel (Common Law), 1997-2006; Assistant Recorder, 1999-2001; Recorder, 2001-08; Deputy High Court Judge, 2004-08; QC, 2006; First Treasury Counsel (Common Law), 2006-08; a  High Court Justice, Chancery Division, 2008-14; A Chair of the Competition Appeal Tribunal, 2008-2019; Deputy Chairman of the Boundary Commission for England, 2009-2014; Vice-President of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, 2014-2015; Lord Justice of Appeal (England & Wales), 2014-2019; Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, 2019-; Deputy President of the Supreme Court, 2026-.

Lord Sales’ interests include theatre, film, opera, reading, open-water swimming, hiking. He has contributed numerous articles to law journals and books.