The Investigatory Powers Tribunal: Reflections on Seven Years as its President

An event organised by the UCL Centre for Criminal Law

The Investigatory Powers Tribunal: Reflections on Seven Years as its President
by The Right Honourable Sir Rabinder Singh

Chaired by Professor David Ormerod (UCL)

About the speaker

The Right Honourable Sir Rabinder Singh has been a member of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal since 2016 and was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal in October 2017. He was appointed President on 27 September 2018.

Lord Justice Singh was called to the Bar in 1989 and practised at the Bar from 1990 to 2011. He was on the Attorney General’s Panels of Junior Counsel to the Crown from 1992 to 2002. He was also additional Junior Counsel to the Inland Revenue from 1997 to 2002. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2002 and Chaired the Administrative Law Bar Association from 2006 to 2008. From 2003 to 2011 he was a Deputy High Court Judge and Recorder of the Crown Court from 2004 to 2011. He was appointed High Court Judge – Queen’s Bench Division – in October 2011 and was a Presiding Judge of the South-eastern Circuit from 2013 to 2016. He was also Administrative Court liaison judge for Wales and the Midland and Western circuits during 2017. He was a visiting Professor of Law at the London School of Economics from 2003 to 2009 and a Visiting Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford from 2016 to 2019; and has been an Honorary Professor of Law at Nottingham University since 2007; and an Honorary Fellow at UCL since 2024.

His publications include The Future of Human Rights in the UK (1997); as co-author with Sir Jack Beatson and others, Human Rights: Judicial Protection in the UK (2008); and The Unity of Law (2022).