Adrian Fulford

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Adrian Fulford

Sir Adrian Fulford QC (born January 8, 1953 ) is a British lawyer and has been a judge at the High Court of Justice of England and Wales since 2002 . From 2003 to 2012 he was a judge at the International Criminal Court in The Hague .

Life

Fulford graduated from the University of Southampton . He then worked as a barrister from 1978 and was appointed crown attorney in 1994. After serving as a recorder since 1995 , he has been a judge on the High Court of Justice of England and Wales since 2002. Among other things, he participated in the proceedings against the perpetrators of the London bombing of July 21, 2005 and against the terrorist Saajid Badat.

On March 11, 2003, he was appointed judge at the International Criminal Court in The Hague via List A for a term of nine years. He was head of the main litigation department and chairman of the First Chamber in the proceedings against Thomas Lubanga .

Fulford is openly gay and was ranked 39th on the Pink List, a list of Britain's most influential homosexuals , in 2010 by the British newspaper The Independent . He is considered the first openly gay judge in the UK.

According to research by the British newspaper Mail on Sunday , Fulford is a founding member of PIE (Pedophile Information Exchange), a group that aims to reduce the age of consent to four and is suspected by the police of abusing children on an "industrial scale". In March 2014, an official misconduct investigation was opened against Adrian Fulford and he resigned from assessing criminal cases.

Publications (selection)

  • Judicial Review: A Practical Guide . With Hugh Southey. Jordans, Bristol 2004, ISBN 978-0853088127 .
  • A criminal practitioner's guide to judicial review and case stated . With Hugh Southey. Jordans, Bristol 1999, ISBN 978-0853085669 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The IoS pink list in 2008 , The Independent . June 22, 2008. 
  2. ↑ a b 'Men in gray suits asked if I had some kind of unspeakable sexual interest'. Sir Adrian Fulford, Britain's first openly gay judge, describes his 'bizarre and depressing' experience of applying for judicial appointment , The Sunday Times . January 21, 2009. 
  3. ↑ Gay judge shatters 'pink glass ceiling' , The Independent . September 20, 2008. 
  4. ^ 4 in London Bomb Plot Get Life Terms , The Washington Post . July 12, 2007. 
  5. ↑ Shoebomb plotter given 13 years , BBC News . April 22, 2005. 
  6. ↑ ICC - Trial Division ( Memento from August 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ The IoS Pink List 2010 , The Independent . August 1, 2010. 
  8. ^ Gay Power: The pink list , The Independent . July 2, 2006. 
  9. ↑ Daily Mail article of March 8, 2014 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Fulford, Adrian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1953