GARNIER, Edward QC

Member for Harborough since 1992. Committees: Chairman, British-Italian Group 2004-06; Member, Executive Committee 2001-05; Member, 1922 Committee 2001-05; Joint Secretary, Conservative Backbench Foreign Affairs Committee 1992-94; Member, Select Committee on Home Affairs 1992-94; Joint Chair, All-Party Knitwear Group 1992-94; Member, Franco-British Group; Member, British-China and Hong Kong Group; Vice-Chair, Conservative Foreign Affairs Forum; Treasurer, British- Netherlands Group; Member, British-Gibraltar Group. Political career: Shadow Minister of Justice since 2007; Shadow Minister for Home Affairs 2005-07; Shadow Attorney-General 1999-2001; Frontbench Spokesman, Lord Chancellor-s Department 1997-99; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Attorney General and Solicitor General 1995-97; Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Rt Hon Roger Freeman MP, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1996-97; PPS to Alistair Goodlad MP and David Davis, Ministers of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1994-95. Special political interests: Foreign affairs, defence, agriculture, education, law. Profession/Trade: Barrister. Title/Honours/Decorations: Bencher of the Middle Temple 2001; Recorder of the Crown Court 1998; QC 1995. Education: Wellington College, Berkshire; Jesus College, Oxford, BA, MA; College of Law, London, called to the Bar (Middle Temple). Affiliations: Visiting Parliamentary Fellow, St Antony-s College, Oxford 1996-97; Member, Court of Leicester University; Member, Leicestershire and Rutland County Landowners- Association; Member, ELA Legal and Parliamentary Sub-Committee; Director, Great Britain- China Centre, London. Contributor to: Facing the Future (1993); Bearing the Standard (1991); Halsbury-s Laws of England (1985). Hobbies: Cricket, shooting, skiing. b. 26 October 1952, Germany. Married with three children.