Rabinder Singh (judge)
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The Honourable Mr Justice Singh |
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Judge of the High Court of Justice Queen's Bench Division |
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Assumed office 3 October 2011 |
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| Appointed by | Elizabeth II |
| Preceded by | Sir David Kitchin |
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| Born |
4 March 1964 Delhi, India |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater |
University of Cambridge University of California, Berkeley Inns of Court School of Law |
| Profession | lawyer, professor |
Sir Rabinder Singh (born 6 March 1964), styled The Hon. Mr Justice Singh, is an English High Court judge of the Queen's Bench Division, formerly a barrister, a founding member of Matrix Chambers and a legal academic.
Rabinder Singh was born in 1964 in Delhi to a Sikh family. He grew up in a working-clas part of Bristol and attended Bristol Grammar School. From an early age Singh had an interest in law and liked the thought of one day becoming an advocate. At Trinity College, Cambridge, he earned a double first in law in 1985. Between 1985 and 1986 Singh spent a year at the University of California at Berkeley studying for his LL.M. During his time at Berkeley he became interested in constitutional law, particularly misuse of power and how the law holds those in power to account. This interest was partly fuelled by the late Professor Frank Newman at Berkeley, a pioneer in the field of human rights law and by his studies on the United States Constitution at Berkeley. In 1988 he attended the Inns of Court School of Law to undertake his final examinations, and he was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in July 1989.
Singh undertook pupillage at the barristers' chambers 4–5 Gray's Inn Square where he became a tenant in 1990. He remained there for 10 years specialising in public and administrative law, employment law, European Community law, human rights law, commercial law and media law. Soon after he was made a tenant, Cherie Booth QC also joined 4–5 Grays Inn Square as a tenant from another set. From 1997 to 2002 Singh was Additional Junior Counsel to the Inland Revenue.
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