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{{Short description|Ugandan lawyer and judge}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Anup Singh Choudry
| honorific-prefix = The Hon. Mr. Justice (Retired)
| image = File:Justice Anup Singh Choudry.png
| caption = Retired Justice Anup Singh Choudry in 2015
| signature =
| office1 = Retired [[High Court of Uganda|Judge of the High Court of Uganda]]
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1949|8|13}}
| birth_place = [[Masaka]], [[Uganda Protectorate|Uganda]]
| spouse = Ravinder Kaur ({{small|1984–present}})
| children = Satbir Kuljeet Judge-Maan
| alma_mater = [[St. Joseph's College Layibi]] [[University of London]] [[Corpus Christi College, Cambridge]] [[College of Law Chester]] [[College of Law Guilford]]
| website = {{url|gurbanicentre.com}}
| term_start1 = 2008
| term_end1 = 2014
| birthname = Justice Anup Singh Choudry
}}

'''Anup Singh Choudry''' (born 13 August 1949), is a Ugandan lawyer, justice and writer who served as a justice of the [[High Court of Uganda]] from 2 May 2008 until 11 August 2014.<ref name="1R">{{cite web|url=https://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Justice-Choudry-retires/-/688334/2415336/-/121q1sh/-/index.html | title=Justice Choudry Retires |newspaper=[[Daily Monitor]] | date=11 August 2014 |access-date=23 August 2019 |author=Anthony Wesaka |location=Kampala}}</ref>

He was sworn in at a ceremony at the State House in [[Entebbe]] before President [[Yoweri Museveni]] and [[Chief Justice]] [[Benjamin Odoki]].<ref name="2R">{{cite web|date=2 May 2008 | url=http://fateh.sikhnet.com//sikhnet/news.nsf/NewsArchive/7A6D19EA7429B9918725743D006AA827 |title=Uganda's First Sikh High Court Judge Sworn In |publisher=SikhNet News Archive |access-date=23 August 2019 |author=SikhNet News |place=Espanola, New Mexico, United States}}</ref><ref name="3R">{{cite web|date=7 March 2008 |url=http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/news/Some_new_judges_are_cadres_-MPs.shtml |title=Some New Judges Are Cadres - MPs |access-date=23 August 2019 |newspaper=[[Daily Monitor]] |first=and Agnes Nandutu | last=Yasiin Mugerwa |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080308191913/http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/news/Some_new_judges_are_cadres_-MPs.shtml |archive-date=8 March 2008 |place=Kampala |format=Archived from the original by Wayback Machine on 8 March 2008}}</ref> He is the first Sikh and [[Indians in Uganda|Ugandan-born Asian]] to be appointed to the bench in that country.<ref name="4R">{{cite web|title=UK Lawyer Among New Judges|url=http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/614898|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080309075442/http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/614898|url-status=dead|newspaper=[[New Vision]] | date=4 March 2008 |author=Henry Mukasa and Mary Karugaba |location=Kampala |archive-date= 9 March 2008}}</ref>

==Background and education==
Anup Singh was born on 13 August 1949 to Tarlok Singh and Narinder Kaur in [[Masaka]], Uganda. His grandfather Hari Singh, originally from [[Rawalpindi]], [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab Province, British India]], migrated to Uganda in the early 1900s and served in the then Crown Colony's civil service system. Singh's father too, served in Uganda's Civil Service which he retired from in 1972.<ref name="5R">{{cite web |url=https://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/PeoplePower/Justice-Choudry-s-six-years-of-controversy-as-judge/689844-2421174-g5pbb7/index.html |title=Justice Choudry's six years of controversy as judge |newspaper=[[Daily Monitor]] |date=17 August 2014 |access-date=23 August 2019 |author=Anthony Wesaka |place=Kampala |archive-date=1 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190601115012/https://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/PeoplePower/Justice-Choudry-s-six-years-of-controversy-as-judge/689844-2421174-g5pbb7/index.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Singh attended Shimoni Demonstration Primary School and did his secondary school education in both [[Nyamitanga Division|Nyamitanga]] Secondary School in [[Mbarara]] as well as [[St. Joseph's College Layibi]], in [[Gulu]]. After his education in [[Uganda]], he attended [[University of London|Kings College at the University of London]], [[Corpus Christi College, Cambridge]], College of Law Chester and College of Law Guilford.<ref name="2R"/><ref name="5R"/>

==Career==
Singh practiced law in the United Kingdom as a [[solicitor]], for 20 years, from 1980 until 2000.<ref name="4R"/> He also ran several businesses in the United Kingdom, including a [[Nissan]] car dealership, and two property and investment companies.<ref name="5R"/>

In 2008, the Uganda Judicial Services Commission recommended him to the [[president of Uganda]] for nomination as a Justice of the [[High Court of Uganda]]. He was nominated and duly approved by the [[Parliament of Uganda|Ugandan Parliament]]. He was sworn in on 2 May 2008.<ref name="2R"/>

After 6 years of service, Justice Choudry retired on 11 August 2011 and returned to the United Kingdom to join his family.<ref name="1R"/><ref name="5R"/>

== Personal life ==
Justice Choudry is married and has 3 children.<ref name="2R"/>

==Publications==
He has written several books about [[Sikhism]], notably:
*[[Sikh Pilgrimage to Pakistan|''Sikh Pilgrimage to Pakistan'']]
*''[[1984 anti-Sikh riots|Sikh Genocide 1984]]'' (editor)
* [http://search.reviews.ebay.com/Flight-to-Freedom_ISBN_095196450X_ISBN_9780951964507_W0QQfvcsZ1388QQsoprZ5495209 ''Flight to Freedom'']
* Lawyers Office Directory A-Z. Editor: Anup Singh Choudry, the first A-Z legal directory in the UK (1989) {{ISBN|0-9513894-0-8}}
* ''Human Rights of Women in Sikhism''

==References==
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