courts system, Potter presided over the implementation of new rules allowing media access to family proceedings, hitherto private and confidential, subject to certain restrictions. Life Potter is a Trustee of Somerset House in London, and also of Great Ormond Street Hospital for children. He is married and has two sons. References External links Do the Media Influence the Judiciary? Policy Brief by Sir Mark Potter for the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society, Oxford Presidents of the Family Division Living people 1937 births People educated at The Perse School Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge British King's Counsel Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Fellows of King's College London Knights Bachelor Lords Justices of Appeal Queen's Bench Division judges 20th-century King's Counsel Members of Gray's Inn Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom