Annual Event 2021-2022: Lord Justice Singh in conversation with Stephanie Palmer on The Unity of Law

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We are delighted to announce that our annual event/lecture for the 2021-2022 academic year will be held on 27 April 2022 in LG19 of the David Williams building (law faculty). 

Please join us to hear Lord Justice Singh speak about his book The Unity of Law together with Dr Stephanie Palmer. All students, staff and friends of the CPP are welcome to attend.

The talk will be preceded by a reception in the lower ground floor atrium of the David Williams building.

Register to attend here

About Lord Justice Singh

Sir Rabinder Singh was called to the Bar (Lincoln’s Inn) in 1989 and was in practice at the Bar from 1990 to 2011. He was elected a Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn in 2009. Before that, from 1986 to 1988, he was lecturer at the University of Nottingham.

He was on the Attorney General’s Panels of Junior Counsel to the Crown from 1992 to 2002 (on the A Panel from 2000). He was also Additional Junior Counsel to the Inland Revenue from 1997 to 2002. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2002. He 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 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 Midland, Wales and Western circuits during 2017. In September 2018 he was appointed President of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal.

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. 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).

He was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal in October 2017.

About The Unity of Law

Sir Rabinder Singh has been one of the leading lights in the recent development of the common law, most notably in the field of human rights and the law of privacy. Here, for the first time, he reflects on the defining themes of his career as advocate and judge. 

Combining his trademark originality of thought and impeccable scholarship, he selects previously published and unpublished writings to track the evolution of his approach to the common law. A substantial introduction gives context to the book, while opening introductions to each piece reflect on their relevance to contemporary legal thought. 

The essays explore themes as diverse as judicial review, equality, and privacy and personal autonomy. Insightful, erudite, and thought-provoking, this collection is a must read for all those interested in the law and its role in society.

Purchase The Unity of Law here.