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# Adrian Scarborough

Sumter County Magistrate Court · Judge & Deputy Clerk

## Profile

- Court: Sumter County Magistrate Court
- State: Georgia
- Role: Judge & Deputy Clerk
- Service status: active
- Last verified: 2026-08-25

## Summary

Official statewide and applicable court procedural guidance applies to this judge.

## Before you appear

- Read the judge-specific standing order first when one is listed.
- Check the docket and case orders for requirements that supersede broader guidance.
- Confirm current remote-access and courtroom technology arrangements before the proceeding.

## Courtroom Rules

### electronic devices and recording

Scope: statewide

Georgia's class-specific Uniform Court Rules govern electronic devices and recording in state trial courts. Before using recording, photography, livestreaming, or similar courtroom technology, confirm the governing rule and the assigned court's procedure.

Evidence excerpt: Uniform Superior, Juvenile, Magistrate, Municipal and Probate Court Rules

[Supreme Court of Georgia, court orders amending Uniform Trial Court Rules](https://www.gasupreme.us/rules/amendments-to-rules)
Source checked: 2026-07-26


## Sources

- [Official profile](https://georgiacourts.knack.com/gcd2/#directory-entries/entry-details/6109959375889f001f35549b/)
- [Official roster](https://georgiacourts.knack.com/gcd2/#directory-entries/entry-details/6109959375889f001f35549b/)
- [Supreme Court of Georgia, court orders amending Uniform Trial Court Rules](https://www.gasupreme.us/rules/amendments-to-rules)
- [Judicial Council of Georgia Administrative Office of the Courts official judicial roster](https://georgiacourts.knack.com/gcd2/#directory-entries/entry-details/6109959375889f001f35549b/)

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## Biography

### Professional career


### Education


### Additional information

- On television, Scarborough has had prominent roles in Cranford, Gavin & Stacey (2007–2024), Upstairs Downstairs, The Paradise, Crashing, A Very English Scandal, Killing Eve, and currently as Detective Inspector Max Arnold in The Chelsea Detective.
- He has also won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role twice — in 2011 for After the Dance and in 2020 for Leopoldstadt
- He has appeared in major films such as The Madness of King George (1994), Gosford Park (2001), Vera Drake (2004), The History Boys (2006), The King’s Speech (2010), Les Misérables (2012), and 1917 (2019)
- Born 10 May 1968 in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England.
- Adrian Philip Scarborough is a well‐known English actor with a career spanning film, television, and theatre.
- This role may be the source of any confusion with a “judge” title, but it is purely an acting part and does not indicate any legal or judicial position



## Published courtroom rules

### Shared court rules

- [Georgia Magistrate Court Rule 15 — virtual proceedings](https://knowjudges.com/courtroom-rules/national-shared-set-92c085addd8bb83007e0ba04) — Georgia Magistrate Courts only. Virtual proceedings; consent, exceptions and judicial orders control. Dated 2023 source, later amendments not exhaustively certified. [Official source](https://www.gasupreme.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Order-approving-Magistrate-videoconferencing-rules_entered.pdf). Collected 2026-10-27.