RAID is delighted to announce that Lord Mance has kindly agreed to participate in the debate on 'Business and Human Rights: Profits before People?' at the RAID Event tomorrow, Friday 18th April 2008 at the Human Rights Action Centre.
Jonathan Hugh Mance, Lord Mance, is a Law Lord.
He was called to the Bar at Middle Temple in 1965, became a QC in 1982,
a Recorder in 1990, a Judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High
Court (authorised to sit in the Commercial Court) in 1993 and a Lord
Justice of Appeal in 1999. In 2005 he was appointed a Lord of Appeal in
Ordinary.
He has served as Chairman of various Banking Appeals Tribunals
(1992-93), Chairman of the Consultative Council of European Judges
(2000-3) and President of the British Insurance Law Association
(2000-02). He sits on the House of Lords Select Committee on the
European Union, and chairs its sub-committee E (Law and Institutions).
In 2006 he chaired a working party of the All Party Parliamentary Group
on the Great Lakes Region composed of representatives of NGOs and
Industry which considered the UK's implementation of the OECD process
for handling specific complaints about alleged breaches of the OECD
Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, and he gave a paper on
Contemporary Issues in International Trade Law at the Commonwealth Law
Conference in Nairobi in 2007.
