[1] After a short stint as a clerk at the East African Railways and Harbours, he joined a European firm of lawyers in Nairobi.
He was married meanwhile to Swaran Kaur in 1950 and a daughter was born a year later.
[2] After passing the Bar final examinations in 1955, he returned to Kenya in 1956, to start his own practice as a barrister in Nairobi.
[3] He joined the English bar in 1967 and made headlines with his appointment to the bench in 1982, the first from a minority ethnic group and first judge to sit on the English Bench wearing a turban instead of a horse-hair wig.
[1] In 2010, Singh was knighted by the Queen for his services to the judiciary and for his charitable works.