Sir Henry James Carr (31 March 1958 – 18 July 2019) was a British barrister and High Court judge from 2015 until his death in service four years later.

Biography

Carr, whose father was a

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, was educated at

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. When he visited Hertford for an open day, the undergraduate guide was Lord David Pannick, who would later become a leading

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in his own right and a

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. Carr graduated with a first-class BA in law. He later completed an

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at the

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. He was

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in 1982 and practised intellectual property and patents law from 11 South Square

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. Following successful action against

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, in which Sir David Neuberger ruled the company did not have a monopoly on the prefix ''Mc'', Carr was called "McJustice" by the press. He took silk in 1998, was deputy chair of the

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from 2007 to 2015 and was appointed a deputy High Court judge in 2007. 1 October 2015, he was appointed a judge of the High Court and assigned to the Chancery Division. He received the customary

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in the same year. In 1988, he married Jan Dawson and together they had three sons and a daughter. He died on 18 July 2019 of

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. He was a supporter of

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. and a month before his death, he attended the 2019 Champions League Final in Madrid, in which Liverpool beat

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Carr (judge), Henry 1965 births 2019 deaths 21st-century English judges Knights Bachelor Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford University of British Columbia alumni Chancery Division judges Deaths from pancreatic cancer