Education
Bach was educated at Westminster before going up to New College, Oxford (Master of Arts), after which, in 1972, he was called to the Bar.
Bach was educated at Westminster before going up to New College, Oxford (Master of Arts), after which, in 1972, he was called to the Bar.
He currently serves on the opposition front bench. He worked as a barrister, was a local Councillor in Leicester, and became Head of Chambers at King Street Chambers in Leicester on the Midland Circuit in 1996. Bach was the Labour candidate for the constituency of Sherwood in both the 1983 and 1987 general elections.
On both occasions he was defeated by the Conservative candidate Andy Stewart.
On 27 July 1998, Bach was created a life peer, as Baron Bach, of Lutterworth in the County of Leicestershire, where he lives. He was appointed a Government Whip in the Lords in 1999, thereby enjoying the office as one of Her Majesty"s Lords in Waiting.
From November 2000, Lord Bach served as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Lord Chancellor"s Department, until June 8, 2001 when, after the general election, Lord Bach replaced The Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence Procurement – one of the most high-profile jobs in the Ministry of Defence. During Lord Bach"s tenure, the United Kingdom was involved in choosing between the Boeing X-32 and Lockheed X-35 designs for the Joint Strike Fighter project
Lord Bach was also at the signing of "Type Acceptance" – essentially, the release into service – of the Royal Air Force"s Typhoon platform.
Following the 2005 general election, Lord Drayson succeeded Lord Bach at the Ministry of Defence, and Lord Bach was transferred to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State responsible for Sustainable Farming and Food. He held this post until 2006, when he returned to the back benches. As of 5 October 2008, Lord Bach was brought back into government as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice replacing former Lord Hunt of Kings Heath Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Lord Bach was chairman of the SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems Società per Azioni Board of Directors from September 2006 until November 2007, when he resigned from the board in order to return to his role as a government whip.
In October 2008, Lord Bach was promoted to become a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Justice, where he served until May 2010.
In October 2013, Lord Bach became a Shadow Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister on the Official Opposition frontbench headed by Editor Miliband. On 3 December 2014, he took on the additional role of Shadow Attorney General following the resignation of Emily Thornberry.