Judge in charge

His two-year term will run until January 2026.

Waksman J was appointed a deputy High Court judge in 2005 and became the judge in charge of the former London Mercantile Court (now the London Circuit Commercial Court) in 2015 before being appointed a High Court judge in the Queen’s Bench Division in 2018. He was called to the Bar in 1982, practising in commercial law from Fountain Court Chambers, and took silk in 2002. He is a former course director of the Judicial College and been involved in a number of procedural reforms including witness statements, costs management and concurrent expert evidence.