Robert Rinder
| Robert Rinder | |
|---|---|
| Born |
31 May 1978 London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | University of Manchester |
| Occupation | Judge, television presenter |
| Known for | |
| Home town | Southgate, United Kingdom |
| Spouse(s) | Seth Cummings (m. 2013) |
Robert Rinder (born 31 May 1978), better known as Judge Rinder, is an English criminal law Judge and television court judge. He is best known for his role on the reality courtroom series Judge Rinder. He has been described as "the Simon Cowell of the bench ... in a British version of the hit American show Judge Judy".
Rinder was born in London and raised in Southgate. He is Jewish, and is the grandson of a Holocaust survivor.
He attended Queen Elizabeth's School for Boys and the National Youth Theatre, though he later gave up acting because "Benedict Cumberbatch was so good". Rinder then studied politics, modern history and art at the University of Manchester, graduating with double first class honours.
Rinder became the civil partner of barrister Seth Cummings at a ceremony on the island of Ibiza in 2013, conducted by Rinder's friend, the actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who was legally entitled to conduct the civil partnership ceremony because of his online Universal Life Church ministerial ordination. In return, Rinder was one of three best men at Cumberbatch's wedding in 2015. In 2014, he started to write a legal-based discussion column in the newspaper The Sun.
Rinder was called to the bar in 2001 after graduating from the University of Manchester, starting his pupillage at 2 Paper Buildings after going straight from University into it because of his double first. Rinder then became a tenant at 2 Hare Court. He went on to specialise in international fraud, money laundering and other forms of financial crime. He was involved in prosecutions following the murders of Leticia Shakespeare and Charlene Ellis in January 2003, and the defence of British servicemen on charges of manslaughter after the deaths of detainees in Iraq. Since 2010 he has been involved in the investigation and prosecution of alleged bribery, corruption and fraud in the British Overseas Territory of the Turks and Caicos Islands.
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