Background
Faulks is the son of His Honour Peter Ronald Faulks Military Cross and Pamela Faulks (née Lawless).
Faulks is the son of His Honour Peter Ronald Faulks Military Cross and Pamela Faulks (née Lawless).
He was educated at Wellington College and Jesus College, Oxford, where he graduated with an Master of Arts. He was called to the Bar, Middle Temple, in 1973.
He was appointed Minister of State for Justice in December 2013. Faulks became a Queen"s Counsel in 1996 and a Recorder in 2000. He became a bencher in 2002.
He was a Literary Agent, for Curtis Brown, from 1980-1981.
He was an Assistant Recorder, 1996–2000. He was Chairman of the Professional Negligence Bar Association 2002-2004 and Special Advisor to the Department for Constitutional Affairs on compensation culture, 2005-2006.
In 2010 he was created a life peer as Baron Faulks, of Donnington in the Royal County of Berkshire. In December 2013 it was announced that with effect from 20 January 2014 Faulks would become a Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice.
On 10 June 2015, Faulks questioned in the House of Lords "whether it is always necessary for everybody who has quite real problems to have a lawyer at £200-odd an hour, or whether there are better and more effective ways of giving advice".
The fact-checking web-site FullFact.org investigated and concluded that the claim was untrue - only in exceptionally rare circumstances do lawyers command such charges, with £50-£70 per hour being a routine fee. Faulks is a contributing editor to "Local Authority Liabilities", 1998, 4th edition 2009.
He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.