David Philip Pannick, Baron Pannick, is a British barrister and a crossbencher in the House of Lords.
He practises mainly in the areas of public law and human rights. He has argued cases before the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords, the European Court of Justice, and the European Court of Human Rights.
Career
He was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1979, and was one of the panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown (Common Law) from 1988 to 1992, when he was appointed Queen's Counsel, as the title was known during the reign of Elizabeth II. He was also appointed a Recorder on the South Eastern Circuit in 1995, and a deputy High Court judge in 1998. He stopped sitting as a judge in 2005.
Pannick has appeared in the courts of Hong Kong, Brunei, Gibraltar, Trinidad, the British Virgin Islands, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. He appeared in 100 cases citation needed before the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords before its jurisdiction was transferred to the new Supreme Court in October 2009.
As an academic
Pannick was elected as an examination fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, in 1978. He became an honorary fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, in September 2004. He has written on legal matters for The Times, and was co-author with Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC of Human Rights Law and Practice (1st edition 1999; 2nd edition 2004, 3rd edition 2009).
Peerage
On 29 September 2008, the House of Lords Appointments Commission announced that Pannick had been nominated for a life peerage as a crossbencher. His title was gazetted as Baron Pannick, of Radlett in the county of Hertfordshire, dated 3 November 2008.
