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Labour Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 13 September 2016

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Currently held offices

• Member, Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee (since 31 Jan 2024)
• Member, Statutory Inquiries Committee (since 24 Jan 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Justice and Home Affairs Committee (14 Apr 2021 to 31 Jan 2024)
• Shadow Attorney General ( 6 Oct 2016 to 6 Apr 2020)

Recent appearances

• European Convention on Human Rights: 75th Anniversary - Motion to Take Note 20 Mar 2025

  My Lords, I declare interests as the author of the Penguin Allen Lane book Human Rights: The Case for the Defence, as a new member of our delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and as a lifelong human rights lawyer and campaigner. I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Alton, on his well-deserved appointment as chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights and on that...

• Sentencing Council Guidelines - Commons Urgent Question 19 Mar 2025

  My Lords, does my noble friend the Minister agree that, contrary to the confected outrage from across the House, sentencing is not a matter for politicians and should be independent of government? Does he also agree that it would be a jolly good thing if all offenders, whoever they are, had the benefit of a pre-sentence report?

• Copyright and Artificial Intelligence - Question 27 Feb 2025

  To ask His Majesty’s Government what is their initial assessment of the scale and balance of responses to their consultation on copyright and artificial intelligence.

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