the Civil Mediation Council. From 1992-1996 he was President of The Academy of Experts. Legal education Slynn was a supporter of legal education. He wrote a foreword to the book, How to Moot: a Student Guide to Mooting and sat as a judge in the Central and East European Moot Court. He was Honorary President of the Durham Mooting Society and an honorary member of the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society at the University of Virginia. He was a patron of Staffordshire University's Law School. Charitable work Slynn was Patron of the UK wing of the Child in Need Institute (CINI) (CINI UK), founded by his wife Odile Slynn to help poor mothers and children in India. He was a Trustee of The Loomba Trust, which cares for widows around the world, and Patron of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Institute for Indian art and culture. Slynn led a campaign to remove People's Mujahedin of Iran from the British and EU's blacklists. Honours & Arms Slynn received honorary degrees from numerous institutions, and was Visitor of Mansfield College, Oxford from 1995–2002 and of the University of Essex from 1995–2000. He was Chief Steward of Hereford between 1978–2008 and received the Freedom of the City in 1996, and was President of the Bentham Club in 1992 and of the Holdsworth Club in 1993. He was knighted in 1976. He was made a Knight of the Order of St John in 1998, having received the Order of St John in 1992, and received the Grande Croix de l'Ordre de Mérite (Luxembourg) in 1998; appointed a Knight Cross, Order of Merit (Poland) in 1999; Grand Cross, Order of Merit (Malta) in 2001; Officer's Cross, Order of Merit (Hungary) in 2002; and the Cross of Solomon Islands in 2007. He was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours for his services to the International Law Association which he served as Chairman of the Executive Committee. In 2000 he was presented with a 2-volume Liber Amicorum: Vol I, entitled Judicial Review in European Union Law, was edited by Professor David O'Keeffe and Antonio Bavasso; Vol 2, entitled Judicial Review in International Perspective, was edited by Mads Andenas and Duncan Fairgrieve; both volumes were published by Kluwer Law International ( (set)). See also List of members of the European Court of Justice Sources Who's Who 2009