The Rt Hon. the Lord Hoffmann
Crossbench
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Hoffmann's full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord Hoffmann. His name is Leonard Hubert Hoffmann, and he is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
Data not yet released for 2026 — the Lords Finance Office publishes monthly CSVs ~6-8 weeks after month-end.
Lords votes · 2026
No Lords votes recorded for 2026.
Recent Hansard contributions · latest 6
2024-09-11
Arbitration Bill [HL]
My Lords, I greatly regret that the noble Lord should have cast me as his personal nemesis, particularly since it is entirely desirable that an arbitration tribunal should have the power to do what he said Lord Bingham did in the case to which he referre
2024-09-11
Arbitration Bill [HL]
My Lords, I declare an interest in that, since retiring from the Appellate Committee of your Lordships’ House, I have practised as an arbitrator. More to the point, I was the presiding arbitrator in the Nigerian case to which the noble Lord referred. Of
The noble Lord, Lord Howard, did me the honour of quoting a passage which I had written in a foreword to the paper by Professor Ekins of St John’s College, Oxford, on the jurisdiction to grant interim injunctions. I adhere to what I said in that foreword
Once the cook was dead.
My Lords, my noble friend Lord Clarke asked whether there was any precedent for the kind of legislation we are considering, in which some question of fact is declared to be the case to the exclusion of any contrary decision by a court. There are such pre
2023-12-19
Arbitration Bill [HL]
My Lords, I will make a declaration. Since I retired from being a member of your Lordships’ Appellate Committee some 14 years ago, I have practised as an arbitrator in London, including having presided over the Nigerian arbitration to which my noble and
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Register of Interests · 3 entries on file
Declarations under the Lords Code of Conduct. Free text — no monetary values, no hours worked. A declaration that an interest exists, not a claim about its size.
Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.
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Arbitrator and Mediator, Brick Court Chambers, London WC2
registered 2017-03-28 · amended 2025-04-05
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Law Professor and Consultant, Queen Mary College, University of London
registered 2017-03-28 · amended 2025-04-05
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Non-permanent Judge, Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong; the member received £37,063 for sitting in December 2022 and £40,323 for sitting in December 2024
registered 2017-03-28 · amended 2025-07-18
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Party history
1995-02-21 → present
Crossbench
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
1995-11-20 → 1998-11-19
European Union Committee
Contact
Parliamentary office
hoffmannl@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
External or private office
clerks@brickcourt.co.uk
020 7379 3550 · .
020 7379 3550 · .
APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s) · 1 historic
Not currently an officer of any active APPG. Was officer of 1 group(s) historically — those rotated off in later snapshots.
Written parliamentary questions · 2026
No written questions tabled in 2026.
Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
0 bills
0 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported in 2026.
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Historic bills (all-time)
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