Personal Life
He grew up in Finchley, North London, and attended Holmewood Preparatory School (Woodside Park) before going to Highgate School and the University of Keele, where he graduated with a B.A. (Hons) in history and philosophy, before becoming Secretary of Keele's Students Union. He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1967, became Queen's Counsel in 1989 and was elected as a Bencher of Gray's Inn in 2007. He is a patron of the animal welfare organisation "Viva!" (Vegetarians International Voice for Animals), and refers to animal production as "genocide". He is currently the President of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers. In 2010 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Law from the University of Wolverhampton. He has been married twice, to his first wife for 19 years, and then to filmmaker Yvette Vanson. He has six children (Johnathan, Anna, Louise, Leo, Kieran and Fred).
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