Navjot Sidhu

KC
Navjot Sidhu
Born
London, England
NationalityBritish
Alma materLondon School of Economics
University of Oxford
OccupationBarrister
Years active1993–present

Navjot Sidhu KC (Punjabi: ਜੋ ਸਿਧੁ) (born in 1966 in Southall, London) is a British criminal law barrister and King's Counsel.

Career

Sidhu has worked as a criminal law barrister since 1993.[1]

He is chairman of the Criminal Bar Association.

He was the chairperson for the Society of Asian lawyers, the biggest BAME lawyers’ society in the UK representing over 3,000 members[2] and since 2001 he has been the Vice chair of the Equality & Diversity Committee of the Bar Council.[3]

In 2012 Sidhu was appointed Queen's Counsel a rank awarded to about 8% of practising barristers.[4] He is one of about 100 BAME QCs in Britain of whom few have Punjabi origin.[5]

Like other successful criminal practitioners, Sidhu specialises in serious crime, typically terrorism, homicides and conspiracies involving frauds, robberies and drug trafficking.[6] He was a target of death threats and online harassment lasting 12 months in 2015. After police were unable to provide assistance due to a lack of resources, Sidhu hired a forensic computer expert to track the cyber-criminal behind the smear campaign, who was then jailed for five years.[7]

Sidhu has said that the government must do more to tackle cyber threats of this nature.[8][9]


Awards and recognition

In 2016, Sidhu was awarded the UK's Asian Professional of the Year Award 2016.[10]

  1. ↑ "Jo Sidhu QC | Counsel for Leadership". www.counselforleadership.com. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
  2. ↑ "British Punjabis 9th August 2014 (p. 13)". British Punjabi Magazine. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
  3. ↑ "The Legal 500 > 25 Bedford Row (Chambers of Paul Mendelle QC, George Carter-Stephenson QC and Je) > London, ENGLAND > Lawyer profiles > Jo Sidhu QC". www.legal500.com. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
  4. ↑ Gates, James (12 March 2012). "Ealing barrister attains highest of legal honours". getwestlondon. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
  5. ↑ "Queen's Counsel statistics - Bar Standards Board". www.barstandardsboard.org.uk. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
  6. ↑ "Fraudster jailed for stalking barrister". Kent Online. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
  7. ↑ "Barrister hit with death threats in revenge for his war on corruption". Evening Standard. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
  8. ↑ "This is why the government must do more to tackle cyber threats". Metro. 2 January 2016. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
  9. ↑ "Law should protect, not curtail, freedom of speech". Law Society Gazette. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
  10. ↑ ABPL. "2016". www.abplgroup.com. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
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