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