Mummery LJ

Sir John Frank Mummery DL (born 5 September 1938) is a former Lord Justice of Appeal and is President of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal and member of the Court of Ecclesiastical Causes Reserved in the UK.

Mummery attended Dover Grammar School for Boys between 1949 and 1957 and then Pembroke College, Oxford.

Mummery was called to the bar (Gray's Inn) in 1964, becoming a 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, being consulted on matters such as Led Zeppelin's Black Mountain Side and its relation to Bert Jansch's version of Down by Blackwaterside. He also represented Apple Corps in efforts to stop the distribution of recordings of The Beatles in Hamburg.

He was appointed a recorder in 1989 before being appointed a High Court judge on 4 October the same year. He was assigned to the Chancery Division and received the customary knighthood. He was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal on 1 October 1996. He served as President of the 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 has, since 2003, been Chairman of the Trustees of the Royal Courts of Justice Citizens Advice Bureau.

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