Mark Warby

The Right Honourable Lord Justice Warby
Lord Justice of Appeal
Incumbent
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 66)
Alma mater	St John's College, Oxford
Profession	Barrister, 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 Gray's Inn in 1981, and 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.

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

• He was appointed a Queen's Counsel (QC) on 16 April 2002.[23]
• He was knighted in June 2014. This allowed him to be referred to as Sir Mark Warby.
• He was sworn in as a member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council on 10 March 2021 at Windsor Castle.[24] This gave him the Honorific Prefix "The Right Honourable" for life.

References

1. "Senior judiciary". Courts and Tribunals Judiciary. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
2. "WARBY, Mark David John". Who's Who. A & C Black. 1 December 2020. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U43233. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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.
13. Moreham, Nicole; Warby, Mark; Tugendhat, Michael; Christie, Iain (14 March 2016). Tugendhat and Christie: The Law of Privacy and The Media. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-968574-5.
14. "The Law of Privacy and the Media 3rd Edition". 5RB Barristers.
15. Moreham, Nicole; Warby, Mark, eds. (21 January 2016). The Law of Privacy and the Media (third ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-968574-5.
16. Christie, Iain; et al., eds. (1 May 2011). The Law of Privacy and the Media (second ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-958115-3.
17. Tugendhat, Michael; Christie, Iain, eds. (17 October 2002). The Law of Privacy and the Media (first ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-925430-9.
18. Price, James Q. C.; McMahon, Felicity (December 2013). Blackstone's Guide to the Defamation Act. Blackstone's Guides. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-966421-4.
19. Abbas, Nigel; et al. (19 September 2013). Price, James; McMahon, Felicity (eds.). Blackstone's Guide to the Defamation Act. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-966421-4.
20. Warby, Mark; et al. (2013). "Fighting Match Fixing and Related Corruption in Sport". In Lewis, Adam; Taylor, Jonathan (eds.). Sport: Law and Practice (third ed.). Bloomsbury Professional. pp. 205–283. ISBN 978-1-78043-113-0.
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.