Mark Warby

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Lord Justice Warby
Lord Justice of Appeal
Assumed office
3 February 2021
Justice of the High Court
In office
10 June 2014 – 3 February 2021
Personal details
Born (1958-10-10) 10 October 1958 (age 65)
Alma materSt John's College, Oxford
ProfessionBarrister, judge

Sir Mark David John Warby

PC (born 10 October 1958), styled The Rt Hon. Lord Justice Warby, is a Lord Justice of Appeal.[1]

Career

He was educated at Bristol Grammar School and St John's College, Oxford.[2]

He was called to the bar at

appointed Queen's Counsel in 2002.[3] He was a Recorder of the Crown Court (Midland Circuit) from 2009 to 2014.[4] He was selected to present a seminar on media law to the Leveson Inquiry Panel in 2011.[5] In 2013, he was appointed a Deputy High Court Judge and he became a judge of the High Court of Justice (Queen's Bench Division) on 11 June 2014. Following his appointment to the High Court he was awarded the customary knighthood
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In March 2017 he was appointed Judge in Charge of the Media and Communications List.[6][7]

In March 2018 he was appointed director of Senior Judiciary Training.[8]

In January 2019 he became chair of the High Court Judges’ Association.[9][10]

In July 2020 his appointment to the Court of Appeal was announced, and took effect on 3 February 2021.[11] He was appointed Senior Judicial Commissioner of the Judicial Appointments Commission for a period of three years from 1 June 2023 until 31 May 2026.[12]

Publications

  • The Law of Privacy and the Media: joint editor of second and third editions and a contributor to all three editions.[13][14][15][16][17]
  • Contributor to Blackstone's Guide to the Defamation Act[18][19]
  • Contributor to Sport: Law and Practice[20]
  • Gave The Thomas Sutton Lecture 2019 at the Charterhouse on the subject of More and more: law and the Charterhouse in London.[21][22]

Honours

References

  1. ^ "Senior judiciary". Courts and Tribunals Judiciary. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
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  3. ^ "Crown Office". The London Gazette. No. 56538. 16 April 2002. p. 4622. Notice L-56538-1002
  4. ^ "Mr Justice Warby". Courts and Tribunals Judiciary. 31 July 2015.
  5. ^ Warby, Mark (22 January 2014). Press Freedom after Snowden & Leveson. Foreign Correspondents' Club, Hong Kong.
  6. ^ "The Media and Communications List". Courts and Tribunals Judiciary. 27 February 2017.
  7. ^ "Media & Communications List Consultation Report" (PDF). Courts and Tribunals Judiciary. June 2017.
  8. ^ Judicial College. "Activities Report 2019-2020" (PDF). Courts and Tribunals Judiciary.
  9. ^ "Sir Mark Warby appointed Lord Justice of Appeal". 5RB Barristers. 3 August 2020.
  10. ^ "Alumnus The Hon. Mr Justice Warby appointed as Lord Justice of Appeal". St. John's College, Oxford. 10 August 2020.
  11. ^ "Appointment of Lord and Lady Justices of Appeal". Courts and Tribunals Judiciary. 31 July 2020.
  12. ^ "No. 64112". The London Gazette. 12 July 2023. p. 13798.
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  14. ^ "The Law of Privacy and the Media 3rd Edition". 5RB Barristers.
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  21. ^ Warby, Mark (21 October 2019). More and more: law and the Charterhouse in London (Speech). The Thomas Sutton Lecture 2019. London Charterhouse.
  22. ^ Magrath, Paul (6 January 2020). "More and more: Law and the Charterhouse in London".
  23. ^ "Crown Office". The London Gazette. No. 56538. 16 April 2002. p. 4622. Notice L-56538-1002
  24. ^ "ORDERS APPROVED AND BUSINESS TRANSACTED AT THE PRIVY COUNCIL HELD BY THE QUEEN AT WINDSOR CASTLE ON 10TH MARCH 2021" (PDF). Privy Council Office. Retrieved 23 November 2021.