Daniel Brennan

Daniel Joseph Brennan, Baron Brennan, QC (born 19 March 1942) is a British life peer and barrister.

Brennan was educated at St. Bede's Grammar School, Bradford, and graduated with a Bachelor of Law degree from Manchester University, where subsequently he was awarded an honorary Doctorate in 2000. In 1968 he married a Spanish national, Pilar Sanchez Moya, by whom he has four sons.

A member of Matrix Chambers specialising in personal injury and medical work, commercial law, international business issues, public and private international law, and international arbitration, he was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1967. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1985, and he is a Deputy High Court Judge and a Recorder in the Crown Court, a former member of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board and ex-Chairman of the Personal Injuries Bar Association.

Lord Brennan is the Bar representative on the Council of the International Bar Association. He is also a member of the bars of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Affiliations

Chair of the APPG on Legal and Constitutional Affairs | president of the Catholic Union of Great Britain | appointed Delegate for Great Britain and Ireland of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George in succession to Anthony Bailey | co-chair of the advisory board of the Washington-based think-tank Global Financial Integrity. | present to launch the Coalition for Marriage in February 2012 |