Lord Saville of Newdigate

Former Justice

Mark Oliver Saville, Lord Saville of Newdigate was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in 1997. On January 1998 he was appointed to chair the "Bloody Sunday" Inquiry into the events of 30 January 1972 in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The results were published on 15 June 2010.

Born in 1936, Lord Saville was educated at Rye Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford. He read Law at University and obtained first class degrees (BA and BCL). He was awarded the Vinerian Scholarship in 1960.

He was called to the Bar (Middle Temple) in 1962. He became Queen's Counsel in 1975 and a Bencher of his Inn in 1983. He was appointed a Judge of the High Court in 1985 and a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1994.

Between 1994 and 1996 he chaired a Committee of the Department of Trade and Industry concerned with arbitration legislation. This produced an Arbitration Bill, which was enacted as the Arbitration Act 1996.

He received an Honorary Doctorate in Law from Guildhall University in 1997; and was made an Honorary Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford in 1998. He also received an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from Nottingham Trent University in 2008.