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Biography

Mr Justice Waksman read Law at Manchester University, before taking the postgraduate degree of BCL at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar by Middle Temple in 1982 and practised in commercial law from Fountain Court Chambers. He became a QC (now KC) in 2002. He was appointed a Recorder in 2002 and then a Deputy High Court Judge in 2005. In 2007 he became a Specialist Senior Circuit Judge in Manchester. In 2015 he became the Judge in Charge of the London Circuit Commercial Court. He was appointed as a High Court Judge in 2018 and was assigned to the Commercial Court and the Technology and Construction Court. He is presently Judge in Charge of the Technology and Construction Court. He is also authorised to sit in the Competition Appeal Tribunal and the Administrative Court, as well as the Planning Court, where he hears significant planning cases. He is a former Course Director of the Judicial College for training in Specialist Jurisdictions. He has also been involved in a number of recent procedural reforms including concurrent expert evidence ("hot tubbing"), costs management and witness statements.