Contact details
Westminster
House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 6041
mackayjp@parliament.uk
Biography
Lords career
Lord Advocate 1979-84;
Government Spokesperson for Legal Affairs in Scotland 1983-84;
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary 1985-87;
Lord High Chancellor 1987-97
Party groups
Chair, Conservative Party Constitutional Commission 1998-99
International bodies
Vice-President, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (UK Branch)
Name, style and title
Raised to the peerage as Baron Mackay of Clashfern, of Eddrachillis in the District of Sutherland 1979
Register of Interests
2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
General Editor, Halsbury's Laws of England
10: Non-financial interests (b)
Commissary, University of Cambridge
Non-Voting Elder Brother of Trinity House
Lord Clerk Register (unremunerated post in Scottish system of government)
10: Non-financial interests (d)
President, Society of Conservative Lawyers
10: Non-financial interests (e)
Vice President, Princess Royal's Trust for Carers (as of 1 April 2012, The Princess Royal Trust for Carers and Crossroads Care have merged to form a new carers charity called “Carers Trust”)
Vice President, the Highlanders' Museum Appeal Fund
Founding Member, World Prevention Alliance (eliminating disease in low-resource countries)
Member, International Ethics Committee, International Prevention Research Institute (iPRI)
Vice President, Family Mediators' Association