Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith
Peter Henry Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith, PC, QC is a British barrister and a former Attorney General for England and Wales and for Northern Ireland. OnJune 2007, Goldsmith announced his resignation which took effect onJune 2007, the same day that prime minister, Tony Blair, stepped down. Goldsmith was the longest serving Labour Attorney General. He is currently head of European litigation practice at US law firm Debevoise amp Plimpton and Vice Chairperson of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre.
Goldsmith was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, and is of Jewish descent, he was educated at Quarry Bank School before reading law at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and University College London. He was called to the Bar at Grays Inn in 1972, practising from Fountain Court Chambers in London. He became a Queens Counsel in 1987 and a Deputy High Court Judge in 1994 and he was elected the youngest ever chairman of the Bar of England and Wales in 1995. He was created a Labour Life Peer in 1999, as Baron Goldsmith, of Allerton in the County of Merseyside. He was appointed Her Majestys Attorney General in June 2001. One of his first acts was to discuss breaches of the injunction against publishing the whereabouts of the offenders in the murder of James Bulger. He became a Privy Counsellor in 2002.
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