About Judith Farbey
Born 1965. Judith Farbey is a British judge.
Dame Judith Sarah Farbey, DBE (born 21 October 1965) is a British High Court judge and the Vice President of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal.
Farbey was born in London and attended university at Magdalen College, Oxford, completing a BA in 1989. After her undergraduate studies, she completed a graduate diploma in law at City University in 1991. She took silk in 2011 and served as deputy judge of the Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber) from 2014 to 2018 and served as a recorder from 2016 to 2018. She was a member of the Bar Standards Board from 2016 to 2018. In addition to practice, she jointly authored Law of Habeas Corpus in 2011. She received the customary damehood in the same year. In 2023 she was appointed as a Judicial Member of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, and in May 2026 she was appointed Vice President of the Tribunal.
In 2011, she married Prabhat Vaze.
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British judge
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Judith Farbey was born on 21 October 1965 in London.
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