Professor Sir Robin Auld

By Lesley Dingle and Daniel Bates

Auld, Sir Robin Ernest (b. 19th July 1937)

Some Career Highlights

• 1958: LLB, King’s College London
• 1959: Called to Bar (Grays Inn)
• 1963: PhD (King’s College London)
• 1975: QC
• 1987-95: Judge of High Court (Queens Bench)
• 1988: Knighted
• 1995: Privy Council
• 1995-2007: Lord Justice of Appeal
• 1995-98: Senior Presiding Judge, England & Wales
• 2001: Senior Research Scholar, Yale
• 2002: Hon LLD Hertfordshire
• 2006-07: Vice-Chairman, Judicial Appointments Commission
• 2007- : Visiting Professor Kings College London
• 2008- : Justice of Court of Appeal, Bermuda
• 2008- : Solomon Islands Court of Appeal (SW Pacific)

Chairmanship/Membership of Commissions etc

• 1967: Member, Commission of Enquiry into Casino Gambling, Bahamas
• 1975-76: Chairman, William Tyndale Schools’ Inquiry (Islington) William Tyndale Junior and Infants Schools Public Inquiry. A Report to the Inner London Education Authority, London 1976. William Tyndale School
• 1975-79: Department of Trade Inspector, Ashbourne Investments Ltd., an inquiry into secondary banking, accounting and take-over activities
• 1981: Counsel to Inquiry into the Brixton disorders.
• 1983-84: Chairman, Home Office Committee of Inquiry into Sunday Trading.
• 1998: Chairman, Working Group for the establishment and drafting of the Construction Industry Model Arbitration Rules, ("the CIMAR Rules")
• 1999-2001: Chairman., Review of the Criminal Courts of England & Wales, ("the Auld Review")
• 2008-09: Sole Commissioner, Inquiry into Governmental Corruption in the Turks & Caicos Islands