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DAVID PANNICK K.C.
HOW CAN YOU ACT FOR SUCH TERRIBLE PEOPLE?
LORD DAVID PANNICK K.C. IS WIDELY CONSIDERED TO BE THE BEST ADVOCATE CURRENTLY PRACTIC- ING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. IN THE LECTURE HE DELIVERED TO US IN ROME HE PROVED BEYOND ANY REASONABLE DOUBT THAT THIS ASSESSMENT OF HIS REMARKABLE SKILLS IS ENTIRELY JUSTIFIED.
David was appointed to the House of Lords in 2008 as what is called a “crossbencher,” that is, he was appointed on merit alone and not because of party affiliation.
After a mere thirteen years at the Bar, David Pannick became a Q.C., Queens Counsel, a distinction bestowed only on the very best of advocates. In fact, he had the even rarer distinc- tion of actually representing Her Majesty, the recently departed and most admired, Queen Elizabeth II. As a result of the accession of King Charles III, Lord Pannick and all other Q.C.s became K.C.s, King’s Counsel.
Lord Pannick has appeared in the U.K. Supreme Court and its predecessor some 125 times, as well as in some thirty cases at the European Court of Human Rights, where he often defended the rights of the minorities and the oppressed. And if any more were needed, evidence that David Pannick is simply the best is that former Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently retained him to challenge the fairness of a parliamentary committee investigation into whether he misled the House of Commons in connection with what is known in the U.K. as “Partygate.”
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