| Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
| Mrs Justice Farbey | |
| Office: | High Court Judge King's Bench Division |
| Term Start: | 1 October 2018 |
| Office2: | Judicial Member of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal |
| Term Start2: | 7 August 2023 |
| Birth Date: | 12 October 1965 |
| Birth Place: | London, England |
| Nationality: | British |
| Alma Mater: | City University Magdalen College, Oxford |
Dame Judith Sarah Farbey, DBE (born 12 October 1965)[1] is a British High Court judge and a Judicial Member of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal.[2]
Farbey was born in London and attended university at Magdalen College, Oxford, completing a BA in 1989. After her undergraduate studies, she completed a graduate diploma in law at City University in 1991.
Following her time at City, she was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1992, practising from Doughty Street Chambers.[3] She took silk in 2011 and served deputy judge of the Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber) from 2014 to 2018 and served as a recorder from 2016 to 2018. She was a member of the Bar Standards Board from 2016 to 2018. In addition to practice, she jointly authored Law of Habeas Corpus in 2011.
On 1 October 2018, Farbey was appointed a judge of the High Court and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division.[4] She received the customary damehood in the same year. She was President of the Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber) from 2019 to 2022.[5] In 2023 she was appointed as a Judicial Member of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal.[6]
In 2011, she married Prabhat Vaze.