Daniel Brennan, Baron Brennan
Daniel Joseph Brennan, Baron Brennan KCSG, QC ( born March 19, 1942) is a British politician ( Labour Party ), life peer and barrister.
Life and career
Daniel Brennan attended St. Bede's Grammar School in Bradford and graduated with a Bachelor of Law graduated from Manchester University, from which in 2000 awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 1967 he was admitted as a barrister at Gray's Inn. In 1985 he became Attorney-General. Brennan since 1982 Supreme Court ( Deputy High Court Judge ), the High Court, and part-time judge (Recorder) the Crown Court, he was from 1989 to 1997 a member of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board and from 1995 to 1997 Chairman of the Personnel Injuries bar Association. He is also a member of the Bar Associations of the Republic of Ireland ( since 1990) and Northern Ireland ( since 2001). In 1993, he was Chief Judge ( Bencher ) at Gray 's Inn. In 1999, he was Chairman of the General Council of the Bar in 1998, he was already the vice president.
In 2000 he was chosen by British lawyers and readers of The Lawyer magazine's " Barrister of the Year" ( Barrister of the Year ). As a member, founded in May 2000, the law firm Matrix Chambers, he specializes in medical malpractice law, trade law, international trade and economic law, international private law, international law and international arbitration.
Special focus of his activities as a trial lawyer were the topics of environmental law, product liability and medical malpractice law, in particular in proceedings with class actions, as containing, for example, the insurance, applications to the serious railway accident at Paddington 1999 ( Ladbroke Grove rail crash ), the class action to estrogen and progestogen contraceptive pill (Combined oral contraceptive pill ) and, in the past, the action brought by local residents during the construction of the office building complex, Canary Wharf, the complaints with AIDS infected hemophilia patient against the British government and the representation of victims in the trial of the sinking of the Herald of Free Enterprise.
Brennan is a member of the advisory board of the think - tank Global Financial Integrity, based in Washington. He was also an independent advisor to the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of Defence for compensation for miscarriages of justice and wrongful convictions.
He is president of the Catholic Union of Great Britain, a lobby organization of lay Catholics in Britain.
In 1968 he married Pilar Sanchez Moya, who comes from Spain. With her he has four sons.
Membership in the House of Lords
On 2 May 2000 he was appointed Life peer as Baron Brennan, of Bibury appointed in the County of Gloucestershire.
He belonged to several bipartisan groups eden ( All- party groups). Since 2004 he is Chairman of the Group and Spain since 2005 Chairman of the Bar / Legal and Constitutional Affairs Group. Since 2008 he has been Deputy Chairman ( Vice -chair ) of the Mexico Group.
2005 Brennan said in the case of a so-called " designer babies " in the Appellation process in the House of Lords. Brennan said the Lord judges ( Law Lords ) would need to decide whether the national supervisory authority, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, had exceeded its powers when she gave permission to a tissue typing to determine the compatibility.
On 19 November 2007 Brennan collapsed in the House of Lords shortly after finishing a speech on the draft law on artificial fertilization and embryology (Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill). In this speech, he called for the convening of a national bioethics committee. He has received, among others, health minister Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham, a heart massage. Then he recovered some time at St Thomas' Hospital in London. Brennan got on 3 December 2007 again health problems while he was present in the upper house. In St Thomas' Hospital, he received a pacemaker and thanked later peers and staff who had helped him.
Other offices and honors
Brennan is a member ( Councillor ) of the International Bar Association (IBA). It was established in 1999 with an honorary doctorate of law degree ( Hon LLD) from Nottingham Trent University and 2007 with the same title at the University of Bradford. Since 2000 he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts ( FRSA ). In 2006 he was appointed representatives of Great Britain and Ireland to the Order of Constantine as the successor to Anthony J. Bailey.
Publications
- 2007: Bullen & Leak Precedents of Pleading, 15th Edition, 2 Vols. Sweet & Maxwell. ISBN 978-0-421-93840-3