Appointment of President of the Competition Appeal Tribunal

The Lord Chancellor has appointed The Honourable Mr Justice Marcus Smith to be President of the Competition Appeal Tribunal with effect from 5 November 2021.

Sir Marcus Smith replaces The Honourable Mr Justice Roth whose appointment as President of the Competition Appeal Tribunal ended on 4 November 2021. Mr Justice Roth will return to the  High Court (Chancery Division) and will continue to sit as a Chairman of the Tribunal.

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Sir Marcus Smith (54) was called to the Bar in 1991 and was appointed Queens Counsel in 2010. He was appointed as a Chair at the Competition Appeal Tribunal in 2009, and has sat regularly since that date, hearing cases across the full range of work at the Tribunal. In 2017, he was appointed to the High Court (Chancery Division). He hears cases across the whole range of Business and Property Courts work, as well as sitting in the Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery), the Administrative Court, and the Patents Court. He is one of the judges authorised to sit as a judge of the Financial List. Between 2019 and 2021, he was the Supervising Judge for the Business and Property Courts of the Midland and Western Circuits and Wales.