Michael Mann

Sir Michael Mann, PC (9 December 1930 – 14 June 1998) was an English judge. He was a Lord Justice of Appeal from 1988 to 1995. Biography Born in Streatham, Michael was the son of Adrian Bernard Mann, CBE, a civil engineer, and of Mary Louise Man (née Keen). Mann was educated at Whitgift School and King's College, London, where he read Law and took a PhD in international law. Called to the Bar by Gray's Inn in 1953, he worked as a part-time legal assistant at the Foreign Office until 1956 and lectured at the London School of Economics until 1964. He began to practice at the bar in 1955, specialising in planning law. He was Junior Counsel to the Land Commission (Common Law) between 1967 and 1971, and took silk in 1972. He was appointed a recorder in 1979.