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Sir Anthony May joined Chambers in 1968 after an initial career
teaching classics. He rapidly developed a wide-ranging practice
including heavy construction disputes, and also planning, in which
context he appeared in the House of Lords in
AG ex rel Bedfordshire CC v Howard URC [1976] AC
363. He also appeared with Donald Keating in the House of
Lords in
Trollope & Colls v NWM
Hospital Board [1973] 1 WLR 601 and with Patrick Garland in
Modern Engineering v Gilbert-Ash
[1974] AC 689. He took Silk in 1979 and in 1990 was appointed
Chairman of the Commission of Enquiry into the Savings and
Investment Bank, Isle of Mann. He was appointed to the High Court
Bench in 1991 and to the Court of Appeal in 1997 becoming Deputy
Head of Civil Justice and responsible for the Civil Procedure
Rules. He is at present Vice-President of the Queen’s Bench
Division. He succeeded Patrick Garland as the second President of
ORBA (now TecBAR).
In 1990, whilst still a member of Chambers, Anthony May took
over editorship of Keating on Building Contracts and was
responsible for the 5th Edition published in 1991 and the 6th
Edition published in 1995.