Sir Robin Auld

Sir Robin Auld is an English Judge and legal scholar. He served as a High Court Judge between 1987-1995 and a Lord Justice of Appeal between 1995-2007. He is perhaps best known for the Auld Report on the criminal courts in 2001.

Auld was called to the bar (Gray's Inn) in 1959, attained Queen's Counsel status in 1975 and was appointed a Recorder in 1977. In 1987 he became a full time High Court Judge appointed to the Queens Bench Division and in 1995 was promoted to Lord Justice of Appeal.

Since his resignation in 2007, Auld has held a position as Visiting Professor of Law at Cambridge University, sat as Vice-President of the Judicial Appointments Committee, chaired a commission on corruption in the Turks and Caicos Islands and sat in the Court of Appeal of Bermuda.

Judgements
As a High Court Judge:
 * Morphitis v Salmon (1989) 154 JP 365