Lord Macdonald of River Glaven

Kenneth Macdonald

Kenneth Macdonald

Party

Liberal Democrat

Address as

Lord Macdonald

Contact details

Westminster

House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 5353

Biography

Councils, public bodies

Member: Treasury Counsel Selection Committee, Central Criminal Court 2001-03, Sentencing Guidelines Council 2003-08, Criminal Procedure Rules Committee 2003-08, Independent Commission on Youth Crime 2008-; Trustee, Index on Censorship 2009-; Advisory board, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford

Political interests

Security, criminal justice, civil liberties

Name, style and title

Raised to the peerage as Baron Macdonald of River Glaven, of Cley-next-the-Sea in the County of Norfolk 2010

Register of Interests

1: Directorships

Non-executive Director, Proven (UK) Limited (investigations)

2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.

Practising barrister (Queen's Counsel)

Deputy High Court Judge

Recorder of the Crown Court

Income from articles written for national press, particularly Times and Guardian

Warden, Wadham College, Oxford

5: Land and property

Flat in the City of London

Flat in Manchester

7: Overseas visits

Visit to USA, 21- 29 July 2012, sponsored by the APPG on the Abolition of the Death Penalty, Amnesty International and Reprieve, to study the use of the death penalty in that jurisdiction; all travel and accommodation costs were paid by those groups

10: Non-financial interests (a)

Member, Advisory Board, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford

Visiting Professor of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science

Visiting Professor of Law, Northumbria University

10: Non-financial interests (d)

Commissioner, Independent Commission on Youth Crime and Antisocial Behaviour

Chair and Trustee, Reprieve (anti-death-penalty charity)