The Honourable Mr Justice Mellor is a judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court and has also been appointed by the Lord Chancellor as a chairman of the Competition Appeal Tribunal.  Called to the bar in 1986, James specialised in all aspects of intellectual property law, and he has also acted in contractual disputes with technical or scientific aspects including some international arbitrations.   He has appeared in the Court of Justice of the European Union in a number of references concerned with copyright, database rights and Trade Marks, and since 1994 James has edited the leading practitioners’ text on Trade Marks.  He was appointed as a Queen’s Counsel in 2006.  James was a member of the Disability Panel of the Bar Council 1999-2005. He was appointed as Chairman of the Second Appeal Panel of the Veteran Car Club of Great Britain in 2004, as an Appointed Person for Trade Marks and Designs in 2015 and as a Deputy High Court Judge in 2020.