William Goodhart, Baron Goodhart

William Howard Goodhart, Baron Goodhart QC ( born January 18, 1933) is a Liberal Democrat politician, human rights lawyer and member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom.

Life

Goodhart comes from an Ascended in the British Upper Middle Class Jewish immigrant family. His father, Arthur Lehman Goodhart (1891-1978) was professor of law at Oxford, a brother, Sir Philip Goodhart (* 1925), was a member of the Conservative Party, another economics professor Charles Goodhart (* 1936).

Goodhart in 1960 was awarded the license to practice law and in 1979 Attorney-General.

Goodhart participated in the merger of the Social Democratic Party to the Liberal Party candidate in 1988 and part of the Social and Liberal Democrats in the Kensington by-election in 1988, when he finished only third place again.

In the general election in 1992 he ran for the seat in the constituency of Oxford West and Abingdon under the new party name of the Liberal Democrats. Goodhart shortened the projection of the Conservatives by 1,000 votes to 3,500, but remained in second place.

Goodhart was knighted in 1988 and appointed as Baron Goodhart of Youlbury in Oxfordshire on 23 October 1997 for Life Peer. In the Upper House, he appeared primarily in rights issues as a spokesman for the Liberal Democrats. Goodhart acted temporarily as Shadow Lord Chancellor.

Goodhart also acts as Chairman of JUSTICE, the national organization of the International Commission of Jurists in the UK, he was elected Vice President of the ICJ in 2002. Goodhart is an honorary member of the National Secular Society.

He and his wife Celia Goodhart has 3 children.