Tanweer IkramCBE (born 1965) is the deputy senior district judge (deputy chief magistrate). He studied at Wolverhampton Polytechnic where he obtained his LLB in 1988 and was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1990.[1] He was admitted as a solicitor of the Senior Courts in 1993.
Judicial career
Ikram started as a magistrates' clerk and joined Booth Bennett Solicitors in 1993. He became a partner at IBB Solicitors in 1997. From 2007 to 2009, he was a consultant at ABV Solicitors, practising as an advocate in criminal prosecution and defence work.
Ikram was appointed as a Deputy District Judge (Magistrates' Court) in 2003 and district judge (Magistrates' Court) in 2009. In 2015, he was appointed as an associate judge on the Sovereign Base AreasinCyprus. In 2017, he was appointed deputy senior district judge (Magistrates' Court).[2]
On 13 February 2024 Ikram, presiding over a case of three demonstrators carrying or wearing insignia appearing to glorify Hamas, found them guilty but let them off with suspended sentences. This judgement was subject to criticism.[6] It then transpired that Ikram had shared and 'liked' an online posting by the pro-Palestinian barrister Sham Uddin condemning "Israeli terrorists in the United Kingdom, the United States, and of course Israel."[7] The Campaign Against Antisemitism announced that they were therefore submitting a complaint to the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office about Ikram's judgement in this case.
References
^"Ikram, Tanweer", Who's Who 2020, published online 1 December 2009, updated 1 December 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2020.