# John Mummery > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/John_Mummery > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/John_Mummery.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mummery > Source revision: 1333813786 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{for|the British dentist and microscopist|John Howard Mummery}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2014}} {{Use British English|date=August 2014}} {{short description|British judge (born 1938)}} ''' Sir John Frank Mummery''', [DL](/source/Deputy_Lieutenant) (born 5 September 1938) is a former [Lord Justice of Appeal](/source/Lord_Justice_of_Appeal) and was President of the [Investigatory Powers Tribunal](/source/Investigatory_Powers_Tribunal) and a member of the [Court of Ecclesiastical Causes Reserved](/source/Court_of_Ecclesiastical_Causes_Reserved) in the UK. ==Education== Mummery attended [Dover Grammar School for Boys](/source/Dover_Grammar_School_for_Boys) between 1949 and 1957 and then [Pembroke College, Oxford](/source/Pembroke_College%2C_Oxford). ==Legal career== Mummery was [called to the bar](/source/called_to_the_bar) ([Gray's Inn](/source/Gray's_Inn)) in 1964, becoming a [bencher](/source/bencher) in 1985. He was a Junior Treasury Counsel (charity matters 1977–1981; chancery matters 1981–1989). By the 1970s he was known as a copyright barrister,Law Report 28 October 1975 Court of Appeal, 'Similar facts' admissible in copyright action, ''Mood Music Publishing Co Ltd v De Wolfe Ltd'' being consulted on matters such as [Led Zeppelin](/source/Led_Zeppelin)'s ''[Black Mountain Side](/source/Black_Mountain_Side)'' and its relation to [Bert Jansch](/source/Bert_Jansch)'s version of ''[Down by Blackwaterside](/source/Down_by_Blackwaterside).'' He also represented [Apple Corps](/source/Apple_Corps) in efforts to stop the distribution of recordings of ''[The Beatles in Hamburg](/source/The_Beatles_in_Hamburg)''.The Times, 7 April 1977: ''Chancery Division No injunction to stop alleged offence, Apple Corps Ltd and Others v Lingasong Ltd and Another'' He was appointed a [recorder](/source/Recorder_(judge)) in 1989 before being appointed a [High Court judge](/source/High_Court_judge_(England_and_Wales)) on 4 October the same year.{{London Gazette |issue=51895 |page=11545 |date=9 October 1989}} He was assigned to the [Chancery Division](/source/Chancery_Division) and received the customary [knighthood](/source/Knight_Bachelor). He was appointed a [Lord Justice of Appeal](/source/Lord_Justice_of_Appeal) on 1 October 1996.{{London Gazette |issue=54543 |page=13211 |date=4 October 1996}} He served as President of the [Employment Appeal Tribunal](/source/Employment_Appeal_Tribunal) from 1993 to 1996, and was appointed President of the Security Services, Intelligence Services and Investigatory Powers Tribunals in 2000. He reached mandatory retirement on 5 September 2013. He was, from 2003, Chairman of the Trustees of the Royal Courts of Justice [Citizens Advice Bureau](/source/Citizens_Advice_Bureau). From 2000 to 2003, he served as Chancellor of the [Inns of Court](/source/Inns_of_Court), and was from 1996 to 2001 a governor of the [Inns of Court School of Law](/source/Inns_of_Court_School_of_Law). He has been a member of the Legal Advisory Commission of the [Church of England](/source/Church_of_England) since 1988 and Chairman of the Clergy Discipline Commission and Clergy Discipline Tribunal since 2004. He was a judge of the Court of Ecclesiastical Cases Reserved from 2006.{{cite web |url=http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/m/5152/John+Frank.aspx |title=The Rt Hon Sir John Mummery DL |work=Debrett's People of Today |accessdate=21 October 2012}} ===Judgments=== Notable cases in which Mummery LJ has been involved include: *Compaq Computer Ltd v. Abercorn Group Ltd. (1993) B.C.L.C. 602; Mummery stated the broad aim of a [retention of title clause](/source/retention_of_title_clause) or a proceeds of sale clause in a contract, reflecting "the seller's aim ... to prevent the goods and the proceeds of sale of its goods from becoming part of the assets of an [insolvent](/source/Insolvency) buyer, available to satisfy the claims of the general body of [creditor](/source/creditor)s".Quoted in an [Irish Court of Appeal](/source/Court_of_Appeal_(Ireland)) case, [https://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IECA/2015/CA191.html Unitherm Heating Systems Ltd -v- Wallace as official liquidator of BHT Group Ltd (In Liquidation)], delivered 29 July 2015, accessed 28 October 2022 *[Clark v TDG Ltd (t/a Novacold Ltd)](/source/Clark_v_TDG_Ltd_(t%2Fa_Novacold_Ltd)) (1999) *[Re Barings plc (No 5)](/source/Re_Barings_plc_(No_5)) (1999) *[O'Neill v Phillips](/source/O'Neill_v_Phillips) (1999) *[Hollicourt (Contracts) Ltd v Bank of Ireland](/source/Hollicourt_(Contracts)_Ltd_v_Bank_of_Ireland) (2000) *[Peskin v Anderson](/source/Peskin_v_Anderson) (2001) *[Copsey v WWB Devon Clays Ltd](/source/Copsey_v_WWB_Devon_Clays_Ltd) (2005) *[Fisher v Brooker / Onward Music Limited](/source/A_Whiter_Shade_of_Pale) (2007) - ''[A Whiter Shade of Pale](/source/A_Whiter_Shade_of_Pale)'' authorship/royalties. *[Redfearn v Serco Ltd](/source/Redfearn_v_Serco_Ltd) (2006) *[Collier v P & MJ Wright (Holdings) Ltd](/source/Collier_v_P_%26_MJ_Wright_(Holdings)_Ltd) [2007] EWCA Civ 1329, [2008] 1 WLR 643 - [English contract law](/source/English_contract_law) concerning the doctrine of [consideration](/source/Consideration_in_English_law) and [promissory estoppel](/source/promissory_estoppel) in relation to "alteration promises". *[Luke v Stoke County Council](/source/Luke_v_Stoke_County_Council) (2007) *[Moore Stephens v Stone Rolls Ltd](/source/Moore_Stephens_v_Stone_Rolls_Ltd) (2009) *[Revenue and Customs Commissioners v Annabel’s (Berkeley Square) Ltd](/source/Revenue_and_Customs_Commissioners_v_Annabel%E2%80%99s_(Berkeley_Square)_Ltd) (2009) *[Gisda Cyf v Barratt](/source/Gisda_Cyf_v_Barratt) (2010) *[Link Lending v Bustard](/source/Link_Lending_v_Bustard) (2010) ==Honours== In 2017, he was awarded [The Canterbury Cross for Services to the Church of England](/source/The_Canterbury_Cross_for_Services_to_the_Church_of_England) by the [Archbishop of Canterbury](/source/Archbishop_of_Canterbury).{{cite web|title=Archbishop of Canterbury's Awards ceremony held at Lambeth Palace|url=http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/5876/archbishop-of-canterburys-awards-ceremony-held-at-lambeth-palace|website=Archbishop of Canterbury|accessdate=14 July 2017|date=13 June 2017}} ==See also== *[UK labour law](/source/UK_labour_law) ==References== {{Reflist|30em}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Mummery, John}} Category:1938 births Category:Living people Category:Deputy lieutenants of Kent Category:Chancery Division judges Category:Knights Bachelor Category:Lord justices of appeal Category:Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Category:People educated at Dover Grammar School for Boys Category:Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [John Mummery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mummery) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mummery?action=history)). 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