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His Honour Judge Hiddleston

His Honour Judge Hiddleston

Adam Wallace Hiddleston, known as His Honour Judge Hiddleston was born on the 1st April 1965.

HHJ Hiddleston is currently a Circuit Judge in the London Circuit. He was previously a judge in the First-Tier Tribunal’s Health, Education and Social Care Chamber (Mental Health).

Early Life and Education

HHJ Hiddleston was born in the UK and attended Loretto School in Scotland, graduating in 1981. Specific details about his higher education are not publicly documented, but he qualified as a barrister, developing expertise in criminal and administrative law before his judicial appointments.

Legal Career

His Honour Hiddleston began his career as a barrister at the 3 PB chambers in Greater London, specialising in criminal law and regulatory matters as noted in legal directories like The Law Pages. His practice involved representing clients in court, often in cases involving vulnerable individuals.

He was appointed as a Recorder in 2012 and as a Fee-paid Judge of the First-tier Tribunal assigned to the Health, Education and Social Care Chamber in 2014.This role involves hearing appeals under the Mental Health Act 1983, reviewing detentions and treatment orders to ensure compliance with legal and human rights standards.

In 2015, The Queen appointed Adam Hiddleston to be a Circuit Judge and he was deployed to the South Eastern Circuit based at Croydon Crown Court.

HHJ Hiddleston is shown on the List of Circuit Judges published on the Courts and Tribunal Judiciary website.

His Honour Judge Hiddleston London16-10-2015
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Legal Controversy

On the 13th February 2025, Moussa Kadri, a 59-year-old Muslim man, attacked Hamit Coskun, a 51-year-old Kurdish-Armenian man, outside the Turkish consulate in London’s Knightsbridge after Coskun burned a Quran and made inflammatory statements like “Islam is religion of terrorism.”

Kadri, who pleaded guilty to assault and possessing a bladed article, slashed at Coskun with a knife, later claiming he was protecting his religion.

Attacker of Quran-burning protestor is spared jail – BBC News

At Southwark Crown Court, Judge Adam Hiddleston condemned Kadri’s actions as “disgraceful” and the use of blades as a “curse on our community,” but sentenced him to a 20-week suspended prison term for 18 months, plus 150 hours of unpaid work and 10 days of rehabilitation.

Coskun was convicted of a religiously aggravated public order offence for his “highly provocative” and hate-motivated actions, though he insisted his protest targeted Islam as an ideology, not Muslims.

REX v. Moussa KADRI Sentencing Remarks – HHJ Hiddleston

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The incident sparked debate on the two tier justice system and blasphemy laws.

This sentence will do nothing to dispel the suspicion that Britain has a two-tier criminal justice system. Had a knife-wielding white male pleaded guilty to attacking a Muslim for breaching a Christian blasphemy code, you can bet your bottom dollar he would have gone to prison.

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The UK government reaffirmed that no blasphemy laws exist in England and Wales and they have no plans to introduce them.

This decision sends a green light to any Muslim who wants to enforce an Islamic blasphemy by taking the law into their own hands. The court is effectively saying that if you attack a blasphemer with a knife, he will be convicted of causing you harassment, alarm or distress and you won’t have to spend a day behind bars.

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Authorisation to sit as a High Court Judge

HHJ Hiddleston may be authorised to sit as a High Court Judge by s9(1) of the Senior Courts Act as amended by the Crime and Courts Act 2013.

According to CRIMINAL PRACTICE DIRECTIONS 2015 DIVISION XII His Honour Judge Hiddleston should be addressed as “My Lord” in court.

Modes of Address B.1 – The following judges, when sitting in court, should be addressed as ‘My Lord’ or ‘My Lady’

(b) any Circuit Judge sitting as a judge of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) or the High Court under section 9(1) of the Senior Courts Act 1981;
(d) any Senior Circuit Judge who is an Honorary Recorder.

Description B.3 – In cause lists, forms and orders members of the judiciary should be described as follows:

(a) Circuit Judges, as ‘His [or Her] Honour Judge A’. When the judge is sitting as a judge of the High Court under section 9(1) of the Senior Courts Act 1981, the words ‘sitting as a judge of the High Court’ should be added;

The three key values which are central to the role of judicial office holders (JOHs) in England and Wales are:
• Independence
• Impartiality
• Integrity

“Publicity is the very soul of justice. . . . It keeps the judge himself, while trying, under trial….Where there is no publicity there is no justice”

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“A key issue here is the need to distinguish between conduct which, however objectionable, does not justify invoking the criminal law and conduct which crosses the line and results in criminal liability" - Para 31 R v O’Neill [2016] EWCA Crim 92 [2016]

“Harassment is generally understood to involve improper oppressive and unreasonable conduct that is targeted at an individual and calculated to produce alarm and distress” - Para 38 R v O’Neill [2016] EWCA Crim 92 [2016]

"The behaviour said to amount to harassment must reach a level of seriousness passing beyond irritations, annoyances....The gravity of the misconduct must be of an order which would sustain criminal liability" - Paras [40-44] Hayden v Dickenson [2020] EWHC 3291 (QB)

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