Jo Sidhu
former barrister
Navjot Sidhu (Punjabi: ਜੋ ਸਿਧੁ) is a disbarred British criminal law barrister, and former King's Counsel.
Career
Sidhu had worked as a criminal law barrister since 1993.
He is a past 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 and since 2001 he has been the Vice chair of the Equality & Diversity Committee of the Bar Council.
In 2012, Sidhu was appointed Queen's Counsel a rank awarded to about 8% of practising barristers. He is one of about 100 BAME QCs in Britain of whom few have Punjabi origin.
Sidhu specialised in serious crime, typically terrorism, homicides and conspiracies involving frauds, robberies and drug trafficking. 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.
Sidhu has said that the government must do more to tackle cyber threats of this nature.
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