Inigo Bing

Inigo Geoffrey Bing (born 1 April 1944) is a retired judge.

Biography

Bing is the son of Geoffrey Henry Cecil Bing, and Christian Frances Blois, daughter of Sir Ralph Barrett Macnaghten Blois, 9th Baronet.

Inigo Bing's early education was at St Olave's Grammar School in Southwark. He graduated from the University of Birmingham with an LLB degree in law in 1966. He was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1967. Between 2012 and 2017 he studied history and philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, gaining a BA (1st class honours) and an MA (distinction).

Bing was a Labour Party member of Lambeth London Borough Council between 1971 and 1978. He stood for the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the 1983 General Election and the 1987 General Election for Braintree, and came second each time to Tony Newton of the Conservative Party.

Bing was elected a Bencher of the Inner Temple in 2012. He is the author of Criminal Procedure and Sentencing in the Magistrates' Court (1990).

Bing has also, on a previous occasion, expressed concern over what he perceived to be an urge to over-legislate in the UK. He explained to his audience, at The Heritage Foundation in Washington D.C., that:

Personal life In 1980, he married Shirley-Anne Holmes (née Benka). She died in 2003 and he married Judith Warwick in 2004. The marriage was dissolved and in 2019 he married Mary Honeyball, a former Labour Member of the European Parliament.