Where are they now?

Where are they now? Where are they now?

Paul Rumley

OB (1981-1992)

Lord Justice of Appeal

Paul has recently been appointed as the next national Chairman of the Society of Clinical Injury Lawyers (SCIL) which represents the top, specialist clinical negligence lawyers in England and Wales. Paul will take up his appointment, alongside his ongoing ‘day job’ as lead clinical negligence partner for business development at Royds Withy King based in Bath.

David Woodward

OB (1953-1962)

Picture below is 1962 BGS 7’s Rugby Team who reached semi final. Four players went on to play for Bristol and McFadyean went on to captain England and play for the British Lions. David Trott was our Rugby Master at the time.

There may be a bit of the event in your archive. Congratulations to OB Sir Mark Warby who has been appointed as a Lord Justice of Appeal. He is in good company with two other Old Bristolians - Sir Rabinder Singh and Sir Timothy Holroyde also currently acting as Lord Justices of Appeal.

Sir Mark attended BGS from 1966 -1976 before going to St John’s College, Oxford. He was called to the bar at Gray’s Inn in 1981, and appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2002.

He was a Recorder of the Crown Court from 2009 to 2014 and was selected to present a seminar on media law to the Leveson Inquiry Panel in 2011.

Top row left to right Woodward, Billing, Griffin, bottom row, Colin McFadyean, Dave Perkins, Mclelland, Coveney Reserve who travelled, Brian Furber. Chris Yates

In 2013, Sir Mark was appointed a Deputy High Court Judge and he has been a judge of the High Court of Justice (Queen’s Bench Division) since 11 June 2014. Following His appointment to the High Court he was awarded the customary knighthood. He is one of eight new appointments to the Court of Appeal, all of whom will fill forthcoming vacancies arising from Autumn 2020. Sir Mark has most recently been in the news for granting a delay in the Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle’s High Court legal battle against the publishers of the Mail on Sunday.

Chris Yates

OB (1958-1965)

Each Thursday since COVID changed our lives Richard Smith, David Yates and Chris Yates have joined a Zoom meeting with some cricket mates from Hampshire.

Just to be different, they decided to wear their school cricket caps to the latest meeting.

It is 55 years since they wore them at school. A little threadbare - the caps are too!

Richard Smith

David Yates