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The Right Honourable
The Lord Banner
KC
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
6 March 2024
Life peerage
Personal details
Born
Charles Edward Raymond Banner

(1980-06-03) 3 June 1980 (age 43)
Birmingham, England
Political partyConservative
Spouse
Tetyana Nesterchuk
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(m. 2013)​
Alma mater
OccupationBarrister

Charles Edward Raymond Banner, Baron Banner,[1] KC (born 3 June 1980), is a leading British lawyer and life peer. He was appointed a member of the House of Lords in 2024.

Early life and career

Banner was born on 3 June 1980 in Birmingham to Dr Edward Raymond Banner, a consultant psychiatrist,[2] and Rachel Nimmo Banner (née Macfarlane), of the Nimmo family who founded and operated the Castle Eden Brewery, and was raised near Barnt Green on the outskirts of Birmingham.[3][4] He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and read classics (literae humaniores) at Lincoln College, Oxford, graduating in 2002. He then studied for the Postgraduate Diploma in Law at City, University of London, and graduated from King's College London in 2004 after studying EU law.[3] Whilst undertaking his postgraduate law studies in London from 2002 until 2004, he was the first intern at the recently-established Policy Exchange, later becoming a Research Fellow, working on policing [5] and constitutional reform.[6]

Banner was called to the bar of England and Wales in 2004 at Lincoln's Inn,[3] and to the bar of Northern Ireland in 2010.[7] Before embarking on private practice, he was seconded as a judicial assistant in 2005 to Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry and Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood in the House of Lords.[4][8] Banner was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2019;[9] at the age of 38, he was the youngest barrister to be appointed in that year.[7] He joined Keating Chambers in 2020 to establish their practice in planning and environment law, to compliment their established standing in construction, infrastructure and public procurement law.[10] He practises in all those areas, as well as public law and commercial dispute resolution more generally.[11]

He has acted in over 200 reported cases, including 18 Supreme Court appeals (making him one of the top ten currently practising barristers by number of appearances in the Supreme Court since its opening in 2009),[12] notable examples being R(Cart) v. Upper Tribunal [2012] 1 AC 663 concerning the constitutional principles relating to judicial review,[13] R(Al-Skeini) v. Secretary of State for Defence [2008] 1 AC 153 concerning the territorial scope of the Human Rights Act 1998, in which as a junior barrister he was led by Keir Starmer who was then a practising Queen’s Counsel,[14] as well as judicial reviews concerning HS2 (R (HS2 Action Alliance Ltd) v Secretary of State for Transport),[15] the proposed third runway at Heathrow Airport,[16] the expansion of Stansted Airport,[17] and a new stadium at Casement Park.[18] He sits as a part-time judge of the Astana International Financial Centre Court in Astana, Kazakhstan.[19] He is the founder and co-presenter of the high-profile planning and land use related charity podcast, Have We Got Planning News For You.[20]

He has held non-executive board positions at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (2018–2023), the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (2017–2024; including as deputy chair, 2021–2023; and interim chair, 2023–2024) and the European Union's Fundamental Rights Agency (2017–2020).[3] Banner is a supporter of Sir Brian May's animal-welfare and nature-conservation organisation Save Me.[21]

Political career

Nominated by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak,[22] Banner was created a life peer on 6 March 2024 as Baron Banner, of Barnt Green in the County of Worcestershire.[23] He was introduced to the House of Lords as a Conservative peer on 18 March.[24]

In 2024, Banner was appointed to lead a government review into national infrastructure projects to streamline their procedure and cut down legal challenges.[7][25] The review reported on 24 May 2024.[26]

Personal life

In 2013, Banner married Tetyana Nesterchuk, a Ukrainian barrister based in the UK.[3][27]

He is an advocate of live music venues. [28]

References

  1. ^ "Lord Banner". UK Parliament. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
  2. ^ https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/1C74DB1D4D32DC1AC6DDF8DE7BF92354/S0955603600098354a.pdf/raymond-banner.pdf
  3. ^ a b c d e "Banner, Charles Edward Raymond". Who's Who. A & C Black. 2023. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U292139. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ^ a b Banner, Lord (19 April 2024). "Impact of Environmental Regulations on Development (Built Environment Committee Report)". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 837. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Lords. col. 1183–1185.
  5. ^ https://policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/going-local.pdf
  6. ^ https://www.amazon.com/Off-Their-Wigs-Judicial-Revolution/dp/0907845843
  7. ^ a b c "(Lord) Banner KC to lead review on national infrastructure". GOV.UK. 7 March 2024. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
  8. ^ Gibb, Frances (4 April 2024). "New peer Lord Banner KC on his career and bid to build homes". The Times. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
  9. ^ "No. 62586". The London Gazette. 15 March 2019. p. 4642.
  10. ^ Wilding, Mark (1 July 2020). "Leading QC joins Keating Chambers to set up new planning practice". Planning. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
  11. ^ https://www.keatingchambers.com/people/charles-banner-qc/
  12. ^ https://www.keatingchambers.com/people/charles-banner-qc/%7C
  13. ^ https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2010-0176-judgment.pdf
  14. ^ https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200607/ldjudgmt/jd070613/skeini-1.htm
  15. ^ https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2013-0172-judgment.pdf
  16. ^ https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Heathrow-judgment-on-planning-issues-27-February-2020.pdf
  17. ^ http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2020/226.html
  18. ^ https://www.judiciaryni.uk/files/judiciaryni/decisions/Mooreland%20and%20Owenvarragh%20Residents%27%20Association%20Application%20for%20Judicial%20Review.pdf
  19. ^ https://court.aifc.kz/en/who-we-are |
  20. ^ http://www.hwgpnfy.com
  21. ^ May, Brian (24 November 2022). "Why did I visit the hallowed halls of the Royal Society today [23 November]?". Brian's Soapbox. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
  22. ^ "Political Peerages 2024". GOV.UK. 9 February 2024. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  23. ^ "No. 64342". The London Gazette. 12 March 2024. p. 5010.
  24. ^ "Introduction: Lord Banner". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 837. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Lords. 21 March 2024. col. 1.
  25. ^ King, Alex (8 March 2024). "Planning silk appointed by government to lead review of major infrastructure project delivery". Planning. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
  26. ^ "Banner report on speeding national infrastructure delivery submitted to government". Planning Magazine. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
  27. ^ "Tetyana Nesterchuk". Fountain Court. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
  28. ^ https://www.lesteraldridge.com/la-hub/interviews/house-music-volume-4/ |
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