[3] On 18 March 1946, Silkin, with the military rank of lieutenant colonel, presided over the Double Tenth war crimes trials at the Supreme Court Building in Singapore.
Twenty-one Japanese Kenpeitai were accused of torturing 57 internees, resulting in the deaths of 15.
[1] He was subsequently re-elected in Dulwich and continued to serve until his retirement at the 1983 general election.
[1] From 1974 to 1979, he served as Attorney General for England and Wales and Northern Ireland under Labour Prime Ministers Harold Wilson and James Callaghan.
After his retirement from politics, he was created a life peer as Baron Silkin of Dulwich, of North Leigh in the County of Oxfordshire on 13 May 1985.