The Lord Banner | |
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Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
Assumed office 6 March 2024 Life peerage | |
Personal details | |
Born | Charles Edward Raymond Banner 3 June 1980 Birmingham, England |
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse | Tetyana Nesterchuk (m. 2013) |
Children | 2 |
Alma mater | |
Occupation | Barrister |
Charles Edward Raymond Banner, Baron Banner, [1] KC (born 3 June 1980) is a British lawyer and life peer. He was appointed a member of the House of Lords in 2024.
Banner was born on 3 June 1980 in Birmingham to Edward Raymond Banner and Rachel Banner ( née Macfarlane), and was raised near Barnt Green on the outskirts of Birmingham. [2] [3] He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and read classics ( literae humaniores ) at Lincoln College, Oxford, graduating in 2002. He then studied for the Postgraduate Diploma in Law at City, University of London, and graduated from King's College London in 2004 after studying EU law. [2]
Banner was called to the bar of England and Wales in 2004 at Lincoln's Inn, [2] and to the bar of Northern Ireland in 2010. [4] Before embarking on private practice, he was seconded as a judicial assistant in 2005 to Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry and Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood in the House of Lords. [3] [5] Banner was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2019; [6] at the age of 38, he was the youngest barrister to be appointed in that year. [4] He joined Keating Chambers in 2020 to establish a practice in planning and environment law. [7]
He has held non-executive board positions at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (2018–2023), the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (2017–2024; including as deputy chair, 2021–2023; and interim chair, 2023–2024) and the European Union's Fundamental Rights Agency (2017–2020). [2] Banner is a supporter of Sir Brian May's animal-welfare and nature-conservation organisation Save Me. [8]
Nominated by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, [9] Banner was created a life peer on 6 March 2024 as Baron Banner, of Barnt Green in the County of Worcestershire. [10] He was introduced to the House of Lords as a Conservative peer on 18 March. [11]
In 2024, Banner was appointed to lead a government review into national infrastructure projects to streamline their procedure and cut down legal challenges. [4] [12]
In 2013, Banner married Tetyana Nesterchuk, a Ukrainian barrister based in the UK. [2] [13] They have a son and a daughter, who are British-Ukrainian. [2] [3]
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