MARK HILL was appointed Queen’s Counsel in March 2009, having been in practice in Pump Court Chambers since being called to the Bar in 1987. As a successful and popular junior barrister he developed a broad common law practice over twenty years with a particular emphasis on civil litigation and an acknowledged expertise in ecclesiastical law. He intends to maintain his breadth of practice now that he is in silk but particularly welcomes work in the specialist fields of PERSONAL INJURY AND CLINICAL NEGLIGENCE, ECCLESIASTICAL, HUMAN RIGHTS AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, JUDICIAL REVIEW and COSTS.   

Mark Hill is an accredited mediator.

• Recorder assigned to the Midland Circuit sitting in crime, family and civil
• Chancellor of the Diocese of Chichester
• Chancellor of the Diocese in Europe

• Deputy Chancellor of the Diocese of York
• Honorary Professor of Law, Centre for Law and Religion, Cardiff University
• Editor of the Ecclesiastical Law Journal
• Visiting Fellow, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge
• Member of the Legal Advisory Commission of the General Synod of the Church of England

Membership

• Western Circuit
• Personal Injury Bar Association
• Professional Negligence Bar Association
• Human Rights Lawyers Association
• Ecclesiastical Law Society

• King's College, University of London (1983-1986) LLB, AKC
• Cardiff University (1992-1994) LLM (Canon Law)

Reported Cases

• National Employers' Mutual Insurance Company Limited v Jones [1990] 1 AC 24, HL
• Pacific Associates v Baxter [1990] 1QB 993, CA
• Re Blagdon Cemetery [2002] Fam 299, Court of Arches
• R (J and P) v West Sussex County Council [2002] 2 FLR 1192, Sullivan J
• Parochial Church Council of Aston Cantlow v Wallbank [2004] 1 AC 546, HL
• Stretch v United Kingdom (2004) 38 EHRR 12, European Court of Human Rights
• Blake v Associated Newspapers Limited (2004) 7 Ecc LJ 369, Gray J (expert evidence)
• R (Swindon Borough Council) v Swindon Justices [2004] EWHC 2240, Administrative Court
• Kuenyehia v International Hospitals Group Limited (2006)  Times, 17 February, CA
• Parochial Church Council of Aston Cantlow v Wallbank (2007) Times, 22 February, Lewison J

Publications

• Ecclesiastical Law, Third Edition (Oxford University Press, 2007)
• English Canon Law (co-editor) (University of Wales Press, Cardiff 1998)
• Clergy Discipline in Anglican and Roman Catholic Canon Law (editor) (Rome, 2001)
• Religious Liberty and Human Rights (editor) (University of Wales Press, 2002)
• Jowitt’s Dictionary of English Law (co-editor) (Sweet & Maxwell, forthcoming, 2010)

Mark Hill QC appears in Chambers UK "Leaders at the Bar" 2010 edition, which states he is "an acknowledged expert in ecclesiastical law. He regularly appears in Consistory Courts, the Court of Arches and various ecclesiastical tribunals".