Sir Goolam Hoosen Kader Meeran (born 12 April 1943) is a

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of the

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. Goolam Meeran grew up in

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during the apartheid regime. He graduated from the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

in 1969 and graduated with a MSc (Econ) in

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from the

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in 1970. He was awarded a diploma in law in 1981. He was called to the Bar (Gray's Inn) in 1982. Meeran was appointed a JP in 1985. He became a part-time Chairman of

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in 1992, a full-time Chairman in 1993, an acting Regional Chairman in 1997, and a Regional Chairman in 1998. He was appointed a Judge on the

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in 2002. He was President of the

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s for England and Wales from 2002 to 2008. He retired as president of the Employment Tribunals for England and Wales in 2008, and as a circuit judge in 2009. Meeran was appointed a

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'For services to the Administration of Justice' in the

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in January 2009. Meeran was elected as a half-time judge of the

to begin on 1 July 2009 for a three-year term. He was re-appointed as half-time judge for a seven-year term beginning on 1 July 2012 He gave the first annual Kuttan Menon Memorial Lecture at the

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in 2006.

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