Anthony Grabiner, Baron Grabiner

Anthony Stephen Grabiner, Baron Grabiner QC ( born March 21, 1945) is a British barrister, Solicitor General and Life Peer. Lord Grabiner is President of the Chamber at One Essex Court

The son of Ralph Grabiner and Freda Cohen studied at the London School of Economics (LSE ), where he graduated with an honors degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1966 and a year later made ​​his master. His further education was at Lincoln's Inn, and a year later he was admitted to the bar ..

From 1976 to 1981 he was a young lawyer in the Department of Trade and the Export Credits Guarantee Department and Juniorkronanwalt 1978-1981. In 1981 he was appointed Queen's Counsel, a Bencher in 1989 and was from 1990 to 1999 at the Crown Court Recorder Grabiner was from 1995 Deputy judge of the High Court Judge, and in 2002 chairman of the board of the Arcadia Group. 2002 he was a director of Next plc and from 2002 to 2005 Member of the Rechstsausschuss the Bank of England. He is a Director of the Wentworth Golf Club. On 26 July 1999, he was raised as Baron Grabiner for Life Peer.

He was from 1998 to 2007 Chairman of the Board of Directors of the London School of Economics.

Since 1983, he is married to Jane Portnoy; they have three sons and a daughter.

In October 2010, he represented the Liverpool Football Club in two cases at the London High Court These cases attracted international attention.

In July 2011, Grabiner of the News Corporation was appointed Chairman of the Ethics Committee, which was formed as a result of the News International scandal. According to a report in The Lawyer, where he received an hourly rate of £ 3,000.