Amir Ali Majid is a former judge, legal scholar and author born in Gojra, Punjab, Pakistan.
Biography Majid worked as a senior lecturer at London Guildhall University before being appointed as a part-time immigration adjudicator in the late 1990s.'Unprecedented': Tribunal slams celebrated blind judge over handling of 13 immigration cases in brutal judgment, Legal Cheek 28 September 2017 This made him the second blind judge in Great Britain.
In 2003, he met with Pakistan's president Pervez Musharraf to discuss disability rights in the country.General Pervez Musharraf - Press Room: Foreign Visitors
In August 2017, the Upper Tribunal reviewed several of his cases while he was working as a First-tier Tribunal judge. This review was sparked because many of his decisions had resulted in successful appeals due to substantially similar, short decisions that lacked reasons for the decision and references to the law or the facts of the cases.United Kingdom Immigration and Asylum (AIT/IAC) Unreported Judgments UKAITUR AA069062014 They determined that the decisions all showed errors, "in most cases multiple serious errors," that raised doubt about Majid's legal knowledge and understanding of a judge's role. They considered the impact of his blindness but found that it would not explain the errors.
Majid retired in December 2017. References
External links Journal of Legal Technology Risk Management biography