Lord Goodhart

Contact details

Westminster

House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 5449
goodhartw@parliament.uk

Biography

Electoral history

Contested Kensington (SDP) 1983, (SDP/Alliance) 1987 general elections and (Lib Dem) July 1988 by-election and Oxford West and Abingdon 1992 general election

Lords career

Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for: Pensions 1998-2001, Lord Chancellor's Department 2000-04, Constitutional Affairs 2004-06; Liberal Democrat Shadow Lord Chancellor 2004-06

Party groups

Chair: SDP Council Arrangements Committee 1982-88, Liberal Democrat Conference Committee 1988-91, Liberal Democrat Lawyers Association 1988-91; Liberal Democrat Policy Committee: Member 1988-97, Vice-chair 1995-97

Councils, public bodies

Member, Committee on Standards in Public Life 1997-2003

International bodies

International Commission of Jurists: Member, Executive Committee 1995-2002, Vice-President 2002-06, Honorary Member 2008-; Committee officer, Human Rights Institute 1995-2000

Political interests

Human rights, constitutional reform

Name, style and title

Raised to the peerage as Baron Goodhart, of Youlbury in the County of Oxfordshire 1997

Register of Interests

Nil

No registrable interests