Black Letter Law Directory | 2015 | District Judges and Deputy District Judges

Jinder Boora has been a District Judge in the South Eastern Circuit since April 2014 and sits at Luton County Court. He was previously a Deputy District Judge appointed in 2004. Jinder was called to the Bar in 1990 and was formerly a barrister at No5...

Robin Chaudhuri is a District Judge sitting at Peterborough County Court. He was previously a District Judge sitting at Milton Keynes County Court between 2008 and September 2011. He also became a Diversity and Community Relations Judge, covering the area of Lincolnshire, in 2011. Robin was...

Tan Ikram became a District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts) on the South Eastern Circuit in May 2009 and a Diversity and Community Relations Judge in 2011. He is authorised to hear Private and Public Law family & criminal law cases . Prior to taking up his full-time appointment, he had a...

Sunil Iyer was appointed as a District Judge, sitting at the Manchester Civil Justice Centre, in 2010 and he is also a Diversity and Community Relations...

Nadeem Khan has been a District Judge on the Midland Circuit, based at Worcester Combined Court and Hereford County Court, since his appointment in November,...

Sandip Kumar Sethi is a District Judge on the South Eastern Circuit and was appointed in September 2003. He was previously a partner at Jackson Brierley Hudson Stoney (JBHS), a solicitors and family mediation service in...

Davinder Lacchar was appointed as a District Judge in 1996 and currently sits at West London Magistrates’ Court. Davinder was called to the Bar in 1977 and specialised in Criminal and Family Law. In 1996 she was appointed to the Metropolitan Stipendiary Bench, sitting in London’s Youth and...

Araba Obodai is a District Judge on the Northern Circuit ( North West Region) and sits at the Manchester Civil Justice Centre as one of the nominated Chancery District Judges. She is also a Judicial College Tutor. Prior to her appointment she was formerly a partner in the Commercial Litigation...

Pal Sanghera is a District Judge sitting in Birmingham. He was previously a solicitor in Leamington and is involved with various public bodies, including Warwickshire College, where he is Chair of its Equal Opportunities Advisory Committee. He is also a governor of The Kingsley School, Leamington...

Ray Singh CBE was the first ethnic minority judge on the Welsh bench. He was appointed as a Deputy District Judge in 1992 and in 1997 became the Resident District Judge of the Merthyr Tydfil Combined Law Courts on the Wales Circuit. He sat on the Wales and Chester Circuit until he had to retire,...