David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Tredegar

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The Right Honourable The Lord Wolfson of Tredegar QC
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice
Incumbent
Assumed office 22 December 2020
Prime Minister	Boris Johnson
Preceded by	New appointment
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 January 2021 Life peerage
Personal details
Born	(1968-07-19) 19 July 1968 (age 53) Liverpool, Merseyside, England
Nationality	British
Political party	Conservative
Children	3
Alma mater	Selwyn College, Cambridge Inns of Court School of Law

David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Tredegar QC (born 19 July 1968)^[1] is a British politician, barrister and life peer. He was appointed as a minister in the Ministry of Justice on 22 December 2020.^[2]

Early life and career[]

Born in Liverpool in 1968, Wolfson was educated in King David High School, Liverpool, and then spent a year at Yeshivat HaKotel in Jerusalem.^[3] He read Oriental Studies and Law at Selwyn College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1991.^[4][3] As per tradition, his BA was promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Cantab) degree in 1994.^[1] His father was a solicitor who later became a district judge; his mother attended university as a mature student and taught law in further education colleges.^[3]

Wolfson later attended the Inns of Court School of Law during when he awarded an Inns of Court Scholarship. He was called to the bar at Inner Temple, one of the Inns of Court that had given him a Major Scholarship, in October 1992, where he is now a Bencher.

Career outside politics[]

Wolfson practised in commercial law at One Essex Court in Temple, London.^[3]

Wolfson was instructed in many of the major banking and commercial disputes in recent years, and his practice extended over a broad range of commercial law, both in litigation and international arbitration. He also sat as an arbitrator in both domestic and international disputes. Woflson says the high point of his career was convincing the Court of Appeal that a case that he successfully argued at the High Court five years prior was incorrectly decided.^[3]

Prior to joining the UK Government, Wolfson was awarded "Commercial Litigation Silk of the Year 2020" by The Legal 500, and also "Commercial Litigation Silk of the Year" in the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2020.

In government[]

Wolfson was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice at the Ministry of Justice on 22 December 2020. He was later created Baron Wolfson of Tredegar, of Tredegar in the County of Gwent on 30 December 2020 and was introduced to the House of Lords on 7 January next year.^[5][6]

On November 3, 2021, Wolfson commented in the House of Lords on a proposed law that would criminalize the taking of non-consensual photographs, for purposes of sexual gratification, of women breastfeeding.^[7] His comment was publicized by The Times Diary.^[8]

Personal life[]

Wolfson is a practising Orthodox Jew.^[3] He married Louise in 1995, who is a former partner at Allen & Overy and currently runs a legal consultancy and occasionally sits as a tribunal judge.^[1][3] Together they have three children.^[1]

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