Robin Jacob

Robert Raphael Hayim "Robin" Jacob (born 26 April 1941), now styled The Rt Hon. Professor Sir Robin Jacob, was as Lord Justice Jacob a judge in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.[1]

He read Natural Sciences (physics) at Trinity College Cambridge (1960-1963) and law at the LSE (1963-1967) He was called to the Bar by Gray’s Inn in 1965 (Treasurer 2007). He was appointed a High Court Judge in 1993 and to the Court of Appeal in 2003.[2]

His primary area of expertise is intellectual property rights. He was admitted to the IP Hall of Fame in 2006.[3]

He retired from the Court of Appeal in March 2011 (acknowledged in a valedictory address[4] before a court-room packed with well-wishers) to take up his current position as the Sir Hugh Laddie Chair in intellectual property at University College London.[5] However, in accordance with section 9 of the Senior Courts Act 1981, he has continued on occasion since that date to sit as a judge in the High Court and the Court of Appeal. Sir Robin is currently a door tenant at 8 New Square Chambers.[6]

In 2018, Sir Robin Jacob took up the post of a Justice at the Astana International Financial Centre in the capital of Kazakhstan.[7]

Judgments

Decisions of Jacob in the Court of Appeal include:

References

  1. ↑ Judiciary of England and Wales, , 4 May 2011, not yet updated to reflect his retirement.
  2. ↑ http://www.8newsquare.co.uk/members-of-chambers/Rt.Hon.+Professor+Sir+Robin+Jacob++
  3. ↑ http://www.iphalloffame.com/inductees/2006/Robin_Jacob.aspx
  4. ↑ http://www.iposgoode.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Valedictory_LORD_JUSTICE_JACOB_2011_Mar_22.pdf
  5. ↑ (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/ibil/index.shtml)
  6. ↑ http://www.8newsquare.co.uk/members-of-chambers/index.html
  7. ↑ "UK royal judge to head AIFC". Kazinform.



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