The Trial: The No. 1 bestselling whodunit by Britain’s best-known criminal barrister

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From September 2016, Rinder competed in the fourteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing, stating that he was doing so to make his grandmother proud of him. [25] Rinder was partnered with Ukrainian-born professional dancer Oksana Platero. [26] Rinder was eliminated in week 11 after scoring 31 points dancing a Samba to " Oh, What a Night". He ended the competition in fifth place. In 2015, Rinder released a book called Rinder Rules. [21] In 2016, he presented a new series, Judge Rinder's Crime Stories, with reconstructions of real crimes. He also hosted Raising the Bar on BBC Radio 5 Live, [22] which he started with a discussion with former Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge. [23] In December 2017, Rinder re-launched Crown Court on ITV, newly named Judge Rinder's Crown Court, with a two-part special after a 30-year hiatus. [24]

Robert Michael Rinder MBE ( / ˈ r ɪ n d ər/; born 31 May 1978) better known as Judge Rinder, is a British criminal barrister and television personality. [1] In 2014, while still a practising barrister, he began hosting the reality courtroom series Judge Rinder. In 2019, he also began hosting the Channel 4 series The Rob Rinder Verdict. When hero policeman Grant Cliveden dies from a poisoning in the Old Bailey, it threatens to shake the country to its core.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. Rob Rinder had fantasies about the kind of novel he would like to write. Something the literary giants, whose books lined his study, might create; something inspired by his life as a barrister, that said something big and important about justice, and who gets it. He is, he says with a laugh, someone who “disappears into their own imagination while they’re on a treadmill and has a deluded sense of their own cultural grandeur. Then I tried to sit down and write that earnest book, and it wasn’t emerging.”

Hunt, Julia (14 June 2016). " 'Benedict Cumberbatch made me give up acting because he was so good' admits Judge Rinder". The Mirror . Retrieved 7 September 2016. Robert Rinder: the UK's answer to American chat-show host Judge Judy! Jewish News Online, 29 January 2015. Retrieved 23 June 2016. The only thing that's certain is that this is a trial which will push Adam - and the justice system itself - to the limit. . .An engrossing read by someone who clearly knows their subject matter well. I didn't see the ending coming!' Faith Martin Houghton, Rianne (2 July 2020). "Good Morning Britain's Susanna Reid worried about editing on Celebrity Gogglebox". Digital Spy . Retrieved 26 January 2021. An exciting start to what promises to be an excellent series, with an appealing central character' The Guardian