Anthony Grabiner, Baron Grabiner
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Anthony Stephen Grabiner, Baron Grabiner QC (born 21 March 1945) is a British judge and barrister.
The son of Ralph Grabiner and Freda Cohen was educated in the Central Foundation Boys' Grammar School, EC2 and in the London School of Economics (LSE), where he graduated with Bachelor of Laws in 1966, and with a Master of Laws one year later. He was further educated in Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the Bar one year later.
From 1976 to 1981, Grabiner was Standing Junior Counsel to the Department of Trade and the Export Credits Guarantee Department and Junior Counsel to the Crown from 1978 to 1981. Made a Queen's Counsel in 1981, he became a Bencher in 1989, and was Reporter of the Crown Court between 1990 and 1999. Grabiner is Deputy High Court Judge since 1994, and non-executive chairman of the Arcadia Group Ltd since 2002. He was non-executive director of Next plc in 2002, and member of the Bank of England Financial Services Law Committee from 2002 to 2005. On 26 July 1999, he was created a life peer with the title Baron Grabiner, of Aldwych in the City of Westminster. He is currently the chair of the LSE's court of governors.
Since 1983, Lord Grabiner has been married to Jane Portnoy; they have three sons and one daughter.
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- DodOnline. Retrieved on December 8, 2006.
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