About
British barrister and member of the House of Lords. He assumed office in November 2008. He practices primarily in the areas of public law and human rights and has argued cases before the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the European Court of Justice, and the European Court of Human Rights.
Before Fame
He graduated from Hertford College, Oxford, with an MA and BCL degree in law.
Trivia
He successfully argued against the legality of former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson advising Elizabeth II to suspend Parliament in September 2019. This led to the U.K. Supreme Court unanimously judging that Johnson had given the Queen unlawful advice.
Family Life
He was born and raised Islington, London, England, to Maurice and Rita Pannick. He married Denise Sloam in 1978, with whom he had two sons and a daughter. After Sloam passed away from cancer in 1999, he married Nathalie Trager-Lewis, with whom he has two daughters and a son.
Associated With
He and Justin Welby are both members of the House of Lords.
