From 2017 to 2019, he was the first Investigatory Powers Commissioner,[2] and was the Vice-President of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) in 2019, succeeding Lady Justice Hallett.

[1] One of Fulford’s earliest, and most prominent cases was serving as barrister to Mr Ronnie Bolden, on trial at the Old Bailey in 1989 charged with armed robbery by the West Midlands Serious Crime Squad (SCS), which was later disbanded.

On 11 May 2012, Fulford imposed a whole life order on David Oakes, who was convicted at the Crown Court at Chelmsford of the premeditated and sadistic murder of his former partner and daughter.

Fulford also presided over the trial of Jiervon Barlett and Najed Hoque who were accused of the manslaughter of Paula Castle, a woman mugged in Greenford, West London.

[9][10] Fulford received the UK Government's nomination, and was subsequently elected in 2003 to serve, as one of 18 judges of the International Criminal Court for a term of nine years, and was assigned to the Trial Division.

Sentencing him at the Old Bailey to a whole-life tariff,[18] Fulford described the case as "devastating, tragic and wholly brutal"[19] and told Couzens he had eroded public confidence in the police.