Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton
Charles Baron Falconer of Thoroton, of Thoroton ( born 19 November 1951 in Edinburgh) in the County of Nottinghamshire QC is a British lawyer and Labour Party politician, who was among other things, 2003-2007 Lord Chancellor.
Life
After schooling Falconer studied at Trinity College, Glenalmond and following law at Queens ' College, University of Cambridge. After graduation, he was admitted to the bar in 1974 at the Bar of the Inner Temple. In 1991 he was appointed Queen's Counsel and was elected head of the Bar of the Inner Temple in 1997.
After he was raised in 1997 as a life peer with the title Baron Falconer of Thoroton, of Thoroton in the County of Nottinghamshire in the peerage, he became a member of the House of Lords.
When, after the general election, his fellow student Tony Blair became prime minister in May 1997, it appointed him Solicitor General. Following a cabinet reshuffle in July 1998 he was Minister of State for the Cabinet Office and the coordination of cabinet politics and as such was among other things responsible for the Millennium Dome project. He was Minister of State in the Ministry of Transport, Local Government and the Regions in 2001 and was there until 2002, minister responsible for Housing, Planning and Regeneration, before he was at the Home Office between 2002 and 2003 Minister of State and there was responsible for criminal law, sentencing and legal reform.
2003 appointed him Prime Minister Blair as the successor of Derry Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg Lord Chancellor and Minister of Justice in its second Cabinet. The swearing-in ceremony was held on 18 June 2003. In this position he held until his replacement in 2007 by Jack Straw, he was also the spokesman for the government of Constitutional Affairs and Justice.
In the House of Lords Baron Falconer, who is also vice president of the British section of the Parliamentary Association of the Commonwealth, since 2010, both opposition spokesman fraction of Justice and Constitutional Affairs and Chairman of the Commission for euthanasia.