Summer Newsletter 2025
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Sir Clive Freedman KC, as Chairman of the Association, in succession to Prof Graham Zellick CBE KC (whom we thank for his period as Chairman).
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Clive Freedman has been a Judge of the King’s Bench Division of the High Court since 2018. He was formerly at the Commercial Bar, having been appointed as Queen’s Counsel in 1997. He is a Bencher of Middle Temple and is a member of the Northern Circuit.
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He was joint head of Littleton Chambers from 2006 to 2013, before moving to 7 King’s Bench Walk. His practice at the Bar was in international commercial fraud, joint venture disputes, professional negligence, banking and a broad range of financial disputes. He appeared in arbitrations in and outside the UK and co-wrote the section on International Trade and Arbitration in Burton on Civil Appeals. He was called to the Bar of the British Virgin Islands. He has lectured on a variety of subjects both in the UK and abroad about commercial law as well as about comparative English law and Jewish law
He is a former joint chair of the UJIA Bench and Bar Committee where he and his joint chair (now Mr Justice Roth) led a fundraising campaign to create the Lord Taylor Music Therapy Clinic in Jerusalem. Twenty years later, it still serves the wider community of all faiths in Jerusalem. He was a governor of Immanuel College, Bushey, chairing the religious education sub-committee for a number of years. He is a former trustee of Hadassah UK (the UK supporter of the hospital). He is a committee member of the British Friends of the Hebrew University.
He is married to Hadassa and they have four children, a son and a daughter, both lawyers in London, and two daughters both in High-Tech in Israel.
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We look forward to this new and exciting leadership of the UKAJLJ.
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Spring Newsletter 2023
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Graham Zellick CBE KC as Chairman of the Association in succession to Mr Justice Waxman (whom we thank for his period as Chairman).Graham's illustrious career includes working as an academic lawyer, university head, public servant, and holder of judicial office. Graham was Professor of Public Law and Dean of Law at Queen Mary & Westfield College before becoming Principal and then Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of London. He was one of the first Electoral Commissioners and Chairman of the Criminal Cases Review Commission. In addition, he was the first President of the Valuation Tribunal for England, and he has recently retired after 10 years on the Investigatory Powers Tribunal. Graham is a Senior Master of the Bench and former Reader of the Middle Temple, an Honorary Fellow of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Having been involved with several Anglo-Jewish and Israeli organisations, we are certain that Graham will bring new and exciting leadership as Chairman of the UKAJLJ.