Growing up in East Anglia, Aldous was a keen and eager huntsman from an early age.

Aldous achieved considerable success in the practice of intellectual property law that took him all the way to the bench of the Patents Court.

The Home Office had claimed copyright over tapes of serial killer, Dennis Nilsen in the possession of World In Action.

[3] He was made a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1995 and was sworn a member of the Privy Council.

[2] In March 2009 he dissented from other Court of Appeal judges, in giving the opinion that the Gibraltar Government's housing allocation policy discriminated against same-sex couples.