HRLC in Conversation with Lord Justice Rabinder Singh
18 November 2020
The Human Rights Law Centre was delighted to host Lord Justice Rabinder Singh for a moderated conversation with HRLC Co-Director, Professor Aoife Nolan.
The conversation spanned the breadth of Lord Justice Singh's experience, what it means to be a judge, how decisions are made, and how the right answers are reached. The conversation explored the role and functioning of the Court of Appeal and why it is one of the main law making bodies in England and Wales.
Sir Rabinder Singh has a long and illustrious career. He was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal in October 2017 and President of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal in September 2018. He is formerly a High Court judge on the Queen’s Bench Division, a Queen’s Counsel, and a barrister and founding member of Matrix Chambers.
Sir Rabinder Singh taught law at the University of Nottingham from 1986 to 1988 and has been an Honorary Professor of Law at the University since 2007.
About the Speaker
The Rt. Hon. Sir Rabinder Singh read Law at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1982 to 1985; and was a Harkness Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley, where he obtained his LL. M. in 1986.
He was called to the Bar (Lincoln’s Inn) in 1989 and was in practice at the Bar from 1990 to 2011, becoming a QC in 2002. He was elected a Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn in 2009, and was appointed a High Court Judge (Queen’s Bench Division) in October 2011. He was a Presiding Judge of the South Eastern Circuit from 2013 to 2016 and the Administrative Court liaison judge for the Midlands, Wales and Western circuits during 2017.
Sir Rabinder Singh was a visiting Professor of Law at the London School of Economics from 2003 to 2009 and a Visiting Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford from 2016 to 2019. His publications include, 'The Future of Human Rights in the UK' (1997) and (as co-author with Sir Jack Beatson and others) 'Human Rights: Judicial Protection in the UK' (2008).
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