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'''Sir John Arthur Dalziel Owen''' (22 November 1925 – 9 December 2010) was a British barrister and High Court judge.

== Biography ==
Born in [[Stockport]], John Owen was the son of R. J. Owen and Mrs O. B. Owen. He came from a legal background: both of his grandfathers and his uncle were lawyers. He was educated at [[Solihull School]], then went to [[Brasenose College, Oxford]], before being called up for military service during the [[Second World War]]. After a brief stint in the [[Royal Navy]], he was commissioned into the [[2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)|2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles]], and served in India in the run-up to [[Partition of India|Partition]]. Returning to Brasenose in 1947, he read Law and graduated MA and BCL (1949), and obtained a [[Half Blue|half-blue]] in athletics.

Owen was [[Call to the bar|called to the Bar]] by [[Gray's Inn]] in 1951, and joined the Midland and Oxford Circuit. Practicing from Arthur Evan James’s chambers in Temple Row, Birmingham, Owen built a mixed practice, but was predominantly engaged in criminal work. He became a [[Queen's Counsel]] in 1970, and joined Michael Davis QC's chambers at Harcourt Buildings, [[Temple, London|Temple]].

He was a Deputy Chairman of [[Warwickshire]] [[Court of quarter sessions|Quarter Sessions]] from 1967 to 1971 and a [[Recorder (judge)|Recorder]] from 1972 to 1984. He was elected a [[Bencher]] of Gray's Inn in 1980, and was Deputy Leader of Midland and Oxford Circuit from 1980 to 1984. He was also a member of the Senate of the Inns of Court and the Bar from 1977 to 1980 and Chairman of the West Midlands Area Mental Health Review Tribunal from 1972 to 1980.

Owen was appointed a [[Circuit judge (England and Wales)|Circuit Judge]] sitting at the [[Old Bailey|Central Criminal Court]] in 1984, and a [[High Court judge (England and Wales)|Justice of the High Court]] in 1986. Receiving the customary [[Knight Bachelor|knighthood]], he was assigned to the [[Queen's Bench Division]]. He was Presiding Judge of the Midland and Oxford Circuit from 1988 to 1992. He retired from the High Court in 2000.

A member of the [[General Synod of the Church of England]] for many years, Owen was [[Chancellor (ecclesiastical)|Chancellor]] of the [[Diocese of Derby]] from 1973 to 1980, of the [[Diocese of Coventry]] from 1973 to 1980, and of the [[Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham|Diocese of Southwell]] from 1979 to 1980. He was [[Dean of the Arches|Dean of the Arches Court of Canterbury]], Auditor of the [[Chancery Court of York]], and [[Master of the Faculties]] from 1980 to 2000. In 1993, he received a [[Lambeth degree|Lamberth]] [[Doctor of Civil Law|DCL]]. He helped to establish the first degree course in [[canon law]] in Britain since the Reformation at [[Cardiff University]] and, in retirement, obtained a [[Master of Laws|LLM]] from the university in 1996.

== Notable cases ==
In 1973, Owen defended Father [[Patrick Fell]], who was accused of being an [[Irish Republican Army|IRA]] commander. As a judge, in 1985, he tried the [[Angus Montagu, 12th Duke of Manchester|12th Duke of Manchester]] for fraud against the [[National Westminster Bank]]. In 1991, he was the first at first instance in the landmark case [[R v R]], which saw the end of the marital rape exemption. In 1992, he was a member of the [[Court of Appeal (England and Wales)|Court of Appeal]] in [[R v Brown]], whose decision was upheld by the House of Lords. In 2000, he tried the farmer [[Tony Martin (farmer)|Tony Martin]] for the murder of a burglar.

== Family ==
Owen married in 1952 Valerie Ethell, daughter of W. Ethell; they had one son and one daughter, Melissa Clare Owen (born 12 November 1960), who was married to The Hon. Michael-John Ulick Knatchbull, son of [[John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne]], and of [[Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma]], from 1985 to 1997.

== References ==
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==External links==
* https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sir-john-owen-xbmgv839533
* https://www.theguardian.com/law/2011/jan/17/sir-john-owen-obituary
* https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/law-obituaries/8236317/Sir-John-Owen.html
* https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/sir-john-owen-judge-who-tried-case-which-led-change-law-rape-and-also-presided-over-tony-martin-trial-2193229.html
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