Criminal barrister Robert Rinder has appeared on televisions screens almost daily since 2014 when his own British version of US reality courtroom hit 'Judge Judy' aired on ITV for the very first time.
'Judge Rinder' sees the London-born lawyer putting his crafty cross-examination abilities and acerbic comments to the test as he handles some of the UK's most troublesome - and often somewhat bizarre - civil cases.
But many fans of the lunch-time series have wondered over the years - is Judge Rinder an actual judge?
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We investigated the query ourselves and were amazed at what we discovered...
It turns out that the short answer is no, Judge Robert Rinder is NOT a civil court judge!
Following his First Class graduation from the University of Manchester, he was 'called to the bar' (became qualified to argue in court on behalf of another party) in 2001. During this period, he handled a series of high-profile criminal and civil cases.
Whilst later practising as a barrister at the elusive Inner Temple, Rinder, now 43, wrote television scripts in his spare time. With the belief that one of the shows, a remake of the 1970s programme, could be a genuine success, he approached ITV Studios to 'argue his case'.
It was then that producer Tom McLennan instead proposed a British version of award-winning American legal reality series 'Judge Judy', with Rinder himself as the frontman despite not yet being an official civil court judge.
Since the series aired back in 2014, the law-man has consistently emphasised on the programme that he is a practising criminal law barrister, wears his normal barrister's court dress during filming, yet without the infamous wig.
In 2016, he also began presenting a new spin-off series, 'Judge Rinder's Crime Stories' which featured reconstrictions of shocking crimes and saw the barrister interviewing families, witnesses and officers involved.
The TV star has since investigated his family's heart-breaking Jewish history on the BBC hit, 'Who Do You Think You Are?'.
On Wednesday, January 19 he will also be seen helping other second and third generations of British Jewish families affected by the Holocaust retrace their relatives' footsteps in BBC Four's 'My Family, the Holocaust & Me with Robert Rinder' at 9pm.
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