David Pannick

Lord Pannick

David Philip Pannick, Baron Pannick, QC (born 7 March 1956) is a leading barrister in the United Kingdom, and crossbencher in the House of Lords. He practises mainly in the areas of public law and human rights. He argued 100 cases before the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords before its replacement by the new Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in October 2009, has argued more than 30 cases in the European Court of Justice, and more than 30 cases before the European Court of Human Rights.

In September 2019, Lord Pannick made the case in the UK/Supreme Court for why the English and Welsh courts had been wrong to rule Boris Johnson’s decision to prorogue parliament was lawful. Pannick needed no second invitation. Court one is his manor. It’s where he won Gina Miller’s case, forcing the government to allow parliament a vote on triggering Article 50, and he began as if it were an inevitability that by the end of the week he would have made it two out of two.

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