Sir Rabinder Singh is a Lord Justice of Appeal and President of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal. Born in Delhi in 1964, he came to this country as a young child, grew up in a working class neighbourhood of Bristol and attended Bristol Grammar School. He was the first lawyer in his family and the first person of Asian heritage to be made a High Court judge. After graduating in Law from Trinity College Cambridge, he spent a year as a Harkness Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley where he became interested in constitutional law. After a brief spell as a lecturer at the University of Nottingham, he was called to the Bar by Lincoln’s Inn in 1989 and did his pupillage at 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square. He practised at the Bar from 1990 to 2011, acting both for and against the Government. In 2000, he was one of a group of barristers who founded Matrix Chambers, forging a name for himself as a human rights lawyer, and in 2002 he became a QC. He was appointed a deputy High Court judge in 2003, aged 39, and in 2004 he became a Recorder of the Crown Court. In 2011 he was appointed as a judge of the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court. He was a Presiding Judge of the South Eastern Circuit from 2013 to 2017. He was appointed to the Court of Appeal in 2017. His publications include The Unity of Law (2022), a collection of his essays and lectures. He was elected a Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn in 2009.
During our interview, Lord Justice Singh spoke about the law being a great equaliser, an idea that has influenced him in his work both as a barrister and as a Judge.
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