There’s a moment where you realise that what you’re doing has the most profound value to uphold democracy under the rule of law’ … Rinder on ITV’s Judge Rinder. Photograph: ITV An engrossing read by someone who clearly knows their subject matter well. I didn't see the ending coming!' Faith Martin BBC Radio 5 live – Raising the Bar with Rob Rinder". BBC. 28 August 2016 . Retrieved 6 September 2016.

Becoming a barrister suited Rinder’s relatively late-discovered love of learning, the debating skills he nurtured at university and a genuine desire for advocacy. “There’s something enormously powerful about standing between the individual [accused of a crime] and the power of the state. There’s a moment – it happens to all young barristers – where you realise that what you’re doing has the most profound value to uphold democracy under the rule of law. It sounds sanctimonious, or about your own importance. It’s not quite like that.” It’s not about him specifically, he says, more what it means for us all. The chapters are interspersed with transcripts of telephone calls and messages between Adam and his "typical Jewish mother", who is determined to marry Adam off to a nice Jewish girl and ensure he is eating properly. This adds a little humour to the story and also provides a closer look into Adam and why he wants to be a barrister. I was interested to read this book as I've seen this author in a lot of things and have always liked him. We meet Adam who is a pupil barrister. Along with his pupil master, they are given a case of defending a murder suspect, but Adam finds himself doing most of the work, believing in his client's innocence.

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The Trial is whip-smart, stylish and gripping, both murder mystery and courtroom drama, shot through with tension, humour and a dark dissection of corruption, status and justice' Gilly Macmillan In 2014, Rinder started to write a legal-based discussion column in the newspaper The Sun, and in 2015, he released a book called Rinder Rules. [21] Rinder became a columnist for the London Evening Standard in 2017. [38] Charitable work [ edit ]

Rinder's writing is fast-paced and genuinely intriguing, the twists and turns providing surprises throughout. The story holds a magnifying glass up to the criminal justice system, exposing levels of corruption and injustices which are an uncomfortable truth for the reader. Whilst Adam makes some questionable choices in his pursuit of the truth of what happened to Cliveden, we never stop rooting for him to find fulfilment, a permanent job in his chambers and the right outcome for his client. No easy feat!

Rinder still brings joy to TV – his facial expressions when he competed on Strictly Come Dancing are seared into my brain – but in recent times he has made serious and moving documentaries, including an exploration of Israel and Palestine and My Family, the Holocaust and Me, both for the BBC. His maternal grandfather, known as Morris, was born in Poland; his family were sent to the Treblinka camp, where they were murdered, but Morris, a fit young man, was sent to work in a factory, then to other forced-labour camps. Being the grandchild of a Holocaust survivor, says Rinder, has “informed my politics, my view of the world, my instinctive reaction to people, this idea of who in the community is a bystander, a rescuer, a perpetrator”. In 1945, his grandfather was one of several hundred Jewish orphans who were flown to the Lake District to begin new lives; Morris lied, saying he was younger than he was to get here. There are parallels with today’s migrant crisis, with young people, particularly men, accused of “faking” their age to come to the UK. As well as this we had the faux "comedy" of the stereotypical Jewish mother, feeding, cleaning and trying to find her son a nice Jewish girl. I absolutely loved this book. It showed great insight into the court processes, was full of extremely well crafted and believable characters, full of twists and turns, and I didn't want it to end. I really hope Rob Rinder writes a sequel and it isn't the last we have heard of Adam Green.

Rinder was 21 when he came out, “but I was meandering out at university. It wasn’t so much that I was worried about being gay, as much as doing something that would make my mum fearful for me. When I realised I was gay, HIV/Aids was a death sentence, a looming shadow. It was the time of section 28, where this was something dirty and furtive.” Also, he says: “There were so many complexities about disappointing my mum. We were the first divorced family [in her family], there was pressure on her as a single mum. At that time, being gay was cloaked in shame, and I was probably conscious about wanting to make sure my mum wouldn’t experience that.” He had also wanted to marry and have children. “That wasn’t part of the narrative for gay men then.” Accepting his sexuality “required a conscious loss”. In November 2020, Rinder released My Family, the Holocaust and Me for BBC One; a documentary which helped Jewish families discover the full truth about what happened to their relatives during the Holocaust. The documentary received widespread acclaim, and "a vital history lesson". [30]

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There’s something enormously powerful about standing between the individual and the power of the state’ … Robert Rinder. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Guardian The women who wore tight fitting or "salacious" clothes were Raquel, Gloria and similar. The well to do, casually chic were given Charlotte, Georgina...