Navjot Sidhu | |
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Navjot Sidhu | |
Born | London, England |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | London School of Economics University of Oxford |
Occupation | Barrister |
Years active | 1993–present |
Navjot Sidhu KC (Punjabi: ਜੋ ਸਿਧੁ) (born in 1966 in Southall, London) is a British criminal law barrister and King's Counsel.
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]
Sidhu relinquished his practicing certificate and is no longer a practicing barrister in the United Kingdom.[10]
In 2016, Sidhu was awarded the UK's Asian Professional of the Year Award 2016.[11]