Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith
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The Right Honourable The Lord Goldsmith PC QC |
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Attorney General for England and Wales Attorney General for Northern Ireland |
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In office 8 June 2001 – 27 June 2007 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Gareth Williams |
| Succeeded by | Patricia Scotland |
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5 January 1950 Liverpool, United Kingdom |
| Political party | Labour |
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Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University College London |
Peter Henry Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith PC QC (born 5 January 1950) is a British barrister and a former Attorney General for England and Wales and for Northern Ireland. On 22 June 2007, Goldsmith announced his resignation which took effect on 27 June 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 & 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 Gray's Inn in 1972, practising from Fountain Court Chambers in London. He took silk in 1987 and became 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 raised to the peerage as a Labour peer in 1999, as Baron Goldsmith, of Allerton in the County of Merseyside. He was appointed Her Majesty's 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 was sworn of the Privy Council in 2002.
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