Julian Malins

{{Short description|Barrister; Former Governor of the Museum of London}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Julian Malins

| honorific_suffix = KC

| image =

| caption = Julian Malins QC in 1991, Queen's Counsel assigned to the Midland & Oxford Circuit

| birth_name = Julian Henry Malins

| birth_date = {{birth date|1950|5|1|df=y}}

| birth_place = Rinteln, West Germany

| death_date =

| death_place =

| death_cause =

| other_names =

| known_for =

| education = Brasenose College, Oxford, Oxford University

| employer =

| occupation = Barrister

| title =

| height =

| term =

| predecessor =

| successor =

| party =

| boards =

| spouse = Divorced

| partner =

| children = 3

| parents =

| relatives = Humfrey Malins MP

| signature =

| website =

| footnotes =

}}

Julian Malins, KC (1 May 1950) is a British barrister and a Reform U.K. candidate who served as the Farringdon ward councillor of the City of London{{cite web|url=http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/committees/member/displayMemberDetail.aspx?id=96|title=Julian Malins OC, Ward of Farringdon Without|publisher=|access-date=12 November 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101226075159/http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/committees/member/displayMemberDetail.aspx?id=96|archive-date=26 December 2010|url-status=dead}} and a Governor of the Museum of London.{{cite web|url=http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/english/aboutus/who/governors/julianmalins.htm|title=London Museum Board of Governors}}

Early life

Malins was born in Rinteln, West Germany, where his father served as an army vicar. Brought up in Ghana, Nigeria and Singapore, he was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford. He studied at The College of Law, and was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1972 by the Middle Temple and subsequently to the Bars of the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands and on a case-by-case basis to other Bars. He was pupil to Baron Alexander of Weedon QC.

Legal career

Malins served as a deputy judge and a recorder from 1990. The retirement age for such posts is 70 years.

Malins was retained by Cambridge Analytica to report on its political activities.{{cite web|url=https://ca-commercial.com/news/cambridge-analytica-and-scl-elections-commence-insolvency-proceedings-and-release-results-3|title=Cambridge Analytica and Scl Elections Commence Insolvency Proceedings and Release Results of Independent Investigation into Recent Allegations|date=2 May 2018|publisher=Cambridge Analytica|access-date=2 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180502183542/https://ca-commercial.com/news/cambridge-analytica-and-scl-elections-commence-insolvency-proceedings-and-release-results-3|archive-date=2 May 2018|url-status=dead}}

Political career

As well as being elected a councillor in the City of London, Malins also contested Pontefract and Castleford (UK Parliament constituency) for the Conservatives at the 1987 General Election, where he lost to Labour's Geoffrey Lofthouse.

Malins has now left the Conservative Party and has put himself up as a candidate for The Brexit Party for the Salisbury constituency in the next UK General Election.https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/17851650.brexit-party-39-s-julian-malins-wants-salisbury-mp/ Brexit Party's Julian Malins wants to be Salisbury MP.

Salisbury Journal, 21 August 2019. Retrieved 25 September 2019.

He stood for Reform UK as a candidate for Wiltshire Police and Crime Commissioner in 2021, and came last in 6th place, finishing the election with 4,348 votes.{{cite web |title=Results of Wiltshire and Swindon Police and Crime Commissioner election |url=https://www.swindon.gov.uk/news/article/646/results_of_wiltshire_and_swindon_police_and_crime_commissioner_election |website=Swindon Borough Council |access-date=21 February 2023}} Malins also stood in the subsequent by-election, when original winner Jonathon Seed was disqualified, but again finished last, with 1,859 first-preference votes (2.1%).{{cite web |title=Result of Police and Crime Commissioner election declared |url=https://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/article/4571/Result-of-Police-and-Crime-Commissioner-election-declared |website=Wiltshire Council |access-date=21 February 2023 |date=20 August 2021}}

Personal life

His brother Humfrey Malins is British Conservative Party politician.{{cite news|url=http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/columnists/article623813.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612185054/http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/columnists/article623813.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 June 2011|title=Barons do battle |author=The Times | location=London|date=3 November 2006}}