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Jul 06, 1942 81 years old
British judge
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About Charles Gray Judge
- Sir Charles Antony St John Gray (born 6 July 1942) is a retired British barrister and judge (Mr Justice Gray), who specialised in intellectual property, copyright, privacy and defamation cases.
- As a judge, he presided over the trial of David Irving's libel lawsuit against Professor Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books over claims that Irving was a Holocaust denier; Gray delivered a 349 pages long judgment against Irving.Gray attended Trinity College, Oxford, earning a bachelor's degree in 1961.
- He was called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn and began his practice in 1967.
- Cases he tried include Crossman Diaries, Saatchi v Saatchi & Saatchi, Elton John v MGN, Aldington v Tolstoy, Aitken v Granada and Guardian.
- He took silk in 1984 and was elected a bencher in 1993. Gray retired in 2008 but occasionally presided over the Queen's Bench until 2011.
- He serves as an adjudicator in lawsuits against News Group Newspapers brought by people whose phones were hacked by the group.
- He is a Commissioner in the High Court of Jersey.Gray was knighted by the Queen in December 1998.He was portrayed by actor Alex Jennings in Denial, the 2016 film based on the Irving v Penguin Books Ltd and Lipstadt case.
