Dr John Sorabji
UCL Faculty Member
Bio:
John Sorabji is an Associate Professor of Law at University College London. His expertise is in civil procedural law and alternative dispute resolution. He is particularly interested in access to and the delivery of effective civil justice. He is co-founder and co-director of UCL Laws’ Centre for Dispute Resolution. Outside academia he was previously the Deputy Private Secretary to HM King Charles III and before that the Principal Legal Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales and the Master of the Rolls. In both roles he provided advice on, amongst other things, constitutional issues. He has particularly advised on a wide range of issues concerning judicial governance.
John is a member of the Civil Justice Council of England and Wales, a statutory non-departmental advisory body that is required to keep the civil justice system under scrutiny. As such he has been a member of its Pre-Action Protocols Working Party, is a member of its standing committees on Data and Futures. He co-chaired the Working Party on Litigation Funding, and was primarily responsible for devising its recommendations and drafting its Interim and Final Reports. He is also a member of its AI Working Group and co-chair of its Civil Cases in the Magistrate’s Courts Working Party.
Representative publications:
English Civil Justice after the Woolf and Jackson Reforms (CUP 2014)
A Model Code of Civil Procedure for England and Wales (OUP 2024)
Foskett on Compromise (8th, 9th and 10th editions, Sweet & Maxwell) (with David Foskett)