Anthony Stephen Grabiner

Background

Grabiner was born on 21 March 1945 to Ralph Grabiner and Freda Cohen.

Education

He was educated in the Central Foundation Boys" School. He studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he graduated with a first class honours Bachelor of Laws (Bachelor of Laws) in 1966, and with a Master of Laws (Master of Laws) with distinction one year later.

Career

He is head of chambers at One Essex Court, a leading set of commercial barristers in the Temple, and was the Treasurer of Lincoln"s Inn for 2013. Since 2014, he has been the Master of Clare College, Cambridge, and since 2015, he has served as the President of the University of Law. In 1999, he was made a life peer as Baron Grabiner, and sat in the House of Lords on the Labour Party benches.

In October 2015, he resigned the Labour whip over the direction the party was taking under Jeremy Corbyn.

He was further educated in Lincoln"s Inn, and was called to the Bar in 1968. From 1976 to 1981, Grabiner was Standing Junior Counsel to the Department of Trade and the Export Credits Guarantee Department and Junior Counsel to the Crown from 1978 to 1981.

Made a Queen"s Counsel in 1981, he became a Bencher in 1989, and a Recorder of the Crown Court between 1990 and 1999. Grabiner has been a Deputy High Court Judge since 1994, and non-executive chairman of the Arcadia Group Limited since 2002.

He is a non executive director of Wentworth Golf Club.

Lord Grabiner"s service to Liverpool Football Club has been noted by international news organisations. In July 2011, Grabiner was appointed by News Corporation as chairman of the management and standards committee established by the company in the wake of the News International phone hacking scandal. lieutenant was subsequently reported in The Lawyer magazine that Grabiner would be receiving a fee of £3,000 an hour for his advice to News Corporation.

Academic career

Grabiner was Chair of the Governors of the London School of Economics from 1998 until 2007.

In December 2013, it was announced that he had been elected Master of Clare College, Cambridge University, to succeed Professor Tony Badger in October 2014. On 1 August 2015, Grabiner was appointed as the President of the University of Law.

On 26 July 1999, Grabiner was created a life peer with the title Baron Grabiner, of Aldwych in the City of Westminster. From 1999 to 2015, he sat in the House of Lords on the Labour Party benches.

On 24 October 2015, he announced that he has resigned the Labour whip but would remain a party member.

Achievements

• In the week ending 15 October 2010, Lord Grabiner represented Liverpool Football Club in the London High Court and won two cases against the then current owners of Liverpool Football Club. Grabiner explained his resignation to The Times: "I have nothing in common whatever with Mr Corbyn — and I don"t believe we are ever going to win an election." He now sits in the Lords as a Non-affiliated member.

Politics

Political career

He was the second Labour peer to resign the whip over the views of the new party leader, Jeremy Corbyn.

Membership

He now sits in the Lords as a Non-affiliated member but remains a member of the Labour Party. He was non-executive director of Next plc in 2002, and member of the Bank of England Financial Services Law Committee from 2002 to 2005.