Sir Mark Hedley, DL (born 23 August 1946) is a British retired judge.
[3] On 11 January 2002, he was appointed a High Court judge,[4] receiving the customary knighthood, and assigned to the Family Division.
[1] In August 2024 a BBC investigation revealed that Hedley had made Decisions in his role as Deputy President of Tribunals which meant that complaints against a priest were not able to be examined fully under the Clergy Discipline Measure.
Hedley wrote in his Decision: "I think it could be proved that the respondent had some non-consensual homosexual relations with the complainant."
However, he declined to send the case to a tribunal because he did not think it was possible to prove that the alleged victim was under the age of 18.