Sir Ross Cranston KC is a Professor of law at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a former judge of the High Court, Queen’s Bench Division and the judge in charge of the Administrative Court from January 2016. He still sits in the Commercial and Administrative Courts. In 2019 he was appointed to conduct an independent assurance review of Lloyds Bank’s handling of claims arising from the fraud committed at HBOS impaired assets unit based at Reading and Bishopsgate.

He has authored a number of books on law and held teaching positions as Cassel Professor of Commercial Law at LSE and then a Centennial Professor, also at the University of Warwick and the Australian National University and was Lubbock Professor of Banking Law and Director of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies and Dean of Laws at Queen Mary University of London.

He was MP for Dudley North 1997-2005 and Solicitor General for England and Wales 1998-2001. He was made QC in 1998. He has served on missions for UNCTAD, the World Bank, the IMF and the Commonwealth Secretariat. From 2005-2016 undertook reviews for the European Commission of the legal systems of Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and Turkey.

He has been chair of trustees of the whistle-blower’s charity, Public Concern at Work and of BAILII. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.