The Lord Chancellor,formally titled Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain,is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom. The lord chancellor is the minister of justice for England and Wales and the highest-ranking Great Officer of State in Scotland and England,nominally outranking the prime minister. The lord chancellor is appointed and dismissed by the sovereign on the advice of the prime minister. Prior to the union of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain,there were separate lord chancellors for the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland. Likewise,the Lordship of Ireland and its successor states maintained the office of lord chancellor of Ireland until the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922,whereupon the office was abolished.
Douglas Martin Hogg,3rd Viscount Hailsham,Baron Hailsham of Kettlethorpe,,is a British politician and barrister. A member of the Conservative Party,he served in John Major's second government as Minister of Agriculture,Fisheries and Food from 1995 to 1997,and was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 2010.
Francis Patrick Neill,Baron Neill of Bladen,was a British barrister and a crossbench member of the House of Lords.
The Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom,intended to deal with the Law Lords' ruling of 16 December 2004 that the detention without trial of eight foreigners at HM Prison Belmarsh under Part 4 of the Anti-terrorism,Crime and Security Act 2001 was unlawful,being incompatible with European human rights laws.
Maryam Rajavi is an Iranian dissident politician and the leader of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK),an organization advocating the overthrow of the Iranian government,and president-elect of its National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). She is married to Massoud Rajavi,who is the co-leader of MEK.
Justice is a human rights and law reform organisation based in the United Kingdom. It is the British section of the International Commission of Jurists,the international human rights organisation of lawyers devoted to the legal protection of human rights worldwide. Members of Justice are predominantly barristers and solicitors,judges,legal academics,and law students.
Jonathan Philip Chadwick Sumption,Lord Sumption,,KC,is a British author,medieval historian,barrister and former senior judge who sat on the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom between 2012 and 2018,and a Non-Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal from 2019 to 2024.
Anthony Paul Lester,Baron Lester of Herne Hill,QC was a British barrister and member of the House of Lords. He was at different times a member of the Labour Party,Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Democrats. Lester was best known for his influence on race relations legislation in the United Kingdom and as a founder-member of groups such as the Institute of Race Relations,the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination and the Runnymede Trust. Lester was also a prominent figure in promoting birth control and abortion through the Family Planning Association,particularly in Northern Ireland.
John Giles Hendy,Baron Hendy,,is an English barrister practising in employment and trade union law,and a member of the House of Lords.
Paul Myners,Baron Myners,was a British businessman and politician. In October 2008 he was elevated to the House of Lords as a life peer and was appointed City Minister in the Labour Government of Gordon Brown,serving until May 2010. As City Minister Myners was responsible for overseeing the financial services sector during the 2007–2008 financial crisis and its aftermath,including leading the controversial 2008 United Kingdom bank rescue package. Myners sat in the House of Lords as a Labour peer until 2014,resigning to become a non-affiliated member before joining the crossbench group in 2015.
Kenneth Donald John Macdonald,Baron Macdonald of River Glaven,is a British lawyer and politician who served as Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) of England and Wales from 2003 to 2008. In that office he was head of the Crown Prosecution Service. He was previously a recorder and defence barrister. He is a life peer in the House of Lords,where he sits as a crossbencher and was previously a Liberal Democrat. He was Warden of Wadham College,Oxford until 2021.
Anthony Stephen Grabiner,Baron Grabiner,KC is a British barrister,academic administrator,and life peer. He is head of chambers at One Essex Court,a leading set of commercial barristers in the Temple,and was the Treasurer of Lincoln's Inn for 2013. From 2014 to 2021 he served as the Master of Clare College,Cambridge and,since 2015,he has served as the President of the University of Law. Grabiner was non-executive chairman of Taveta Investments Ltd,the holding company of Sir Philip Green behind Arcadia Group from 2002 to December 2015.
The Dickson Poon School of Law is the law school of King's College London,itself part of the federal University of London,and serves as one of the nine schools of study within the college. It is situated on the Strand in the East Wing of Somerset House,in close proximity to the Royal Courts of Justice and the four Inns of Court in the heart of London's legal quarter. Among the most prestigious and selective law schools in the world,it is currently ranked in the global top 15 and fifth in both Europe and the UK.
Edward Hamilton Fitzgerald is a British barrister who specialises in criminal law,public law,and international human rights law. His work against the death penalty has led him to represent criminals such as:Myra Hindley,Mary Bell,Maxine Carr,various IRA prisoners,and Abu Hamza. Fitzgerald is currently the joint head of Doughty Street Chambers.
The Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation is appointed by the Home Secretary and by the Treasury for a renewable three-year term and tasked with reporting to the Home Secretary and to Parliament on the operation of counter-terrorism law in the UK.
The Draft Communications Data Bill was draft legislation proposed by then Home Secretary Theresa May in the United Kingdom which would require Internet service providers and mobile phone companies to maintain records of each user's internet browsing activity,email correspondence,voice calls,internet gaming,and mobile phone messaging services and store the records for 12 months. Retention of email and telephone contact data for this time is already required by the Data Retention Regulations 2014. The anticipated cost was £1.8 billion.
The Investigatory Powers Act 2016 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which received royal assent on 29 November 2016. Its different parts came into force on various dates from 30 December 2016. The Act comprehensively sets out and in limited respects expands the electronic surveillance powers of the British intelligence agencies and police. It also claims to improve the safeguards on the exercise of those powers.
David William Kinloch Anderson,Baron Anderson of Ipswich,is a British barrister and life peer,who was the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation in the United Kingdom between 2011 and 2017. On 8 June 2018 it was announced that he would be introduced to the House of Lords as a cross-bench (non-party) working peer. On the same day he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE),for services to national security and civil liberties,in the Queen's 2018 Birthday Honours.
Daniel Joseph Mitchell Janner is a British King's Counsel,specialising in criminal law. He is the founder of the FAIR campaign,through which he has played a key role in pushing for legislation to give anonymity to those accused of sex offences.
Charles Edward Raymond Banner,Baron Banner,,is a British lawyer and life peer. He was appointed a member of the House of Lords in 2024.
