Paul Antony Darling OBE KC (15 March 1960 – 2 August 2024) was an English commercial law barrister, King's Counsel, and chair of the Horserace Betting Levy Board.
Darling grew up in Cleadon in County Durham and went to Tonstall School in Sunderland before attending Winchester College and then St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
In 2006 Darling was appointed a non-executive member of the Horserace Totalisator Board or “Tote”.
[17][18] Darling wrote and edited several articles and books, and his cases and work have been described in learned and peer-reviewed journals.
Examples include: In the 2015 Birthday Honours, Darling became the third member of his family to be appointed to the Order of the British Empire.