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The Lord Trevethin and Oaksey KC

Crossbench Member of the House of Lords M
Lord Trevethin and Oaksey's full title is The Lord Trevethin and Oaksey KC. His name is Patrick John Tristram Lawrence , and he was excluded from the House of Lords on 29 April 2026.

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

162 divisions 11 Content(6.8%) 0 Not-Content(0.0%) 151 didn't vote(93.2%)
2026-03-11
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227221 Content
2026-03-11
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215180 Content
2026-03-09
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200162 Content
2026-03-02
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192155 Content
2026-03-02
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202155 Content
2026-01-06
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134185 Not-Content
2026-01-06
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204136 Content
Source: lordsvotes-api.parliament.uk. "Result" shows the headline Content vs Not-Content tally (including tellers). The Lords doesn't publish a "didn't vote" attendance roll like the Commons, so the figure above conflates absence with abstention.

Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25

2025-03-20 European Convention on Human Rights: 75th Anniversary
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord. I wish to say a few words about the relationship between judicial protection of human rights and the rule of law and, in particular, about the way in which Parliament should respond to declarations of
2024-04-25 Gambling Advertising
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Armstrong. I apologise for my slightly late appearance in the Chamber. I was also a member of the Select Committee which considered these issues, now a few years back. I am also a member of
2024-04-15 Litigation Funding Agreements (Enforceability) Bill [HL]
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord. I make precisely the same declaration of interest as did the noble Lord, Lord Wolfson. I occasionally advise funders and I quite frequently act in cases in which one party is funded and the other party
2024-02-09 Conversion Therapy Prohibition (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity) Bill [HL]
My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy. I entirely agree that today’s debate and the subject generally is not the right place to be taking sides. The debate is not being conducted in the manner in which the culture wa
2023-05-09 Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill
My Lords, I will say a few brief words in support of this amendment and place it in its proper legal context. When it was mentioned at Second Reading, the Government’s response was simply to say that the principle that the loser pays the costs of unsucce
2023-05-09 Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill
My Lords, having spoken briefly to the noble and learned Lord, Lord Garnier, who regrets that he is not able to speak to his amendment, I think I know broadly what he would have said, and I agree with him. I shall try to articulate it briefly. The poi
2023-03-27 Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill
I agree with what the noble Lords say. It occurs to me that the intention of calling this a strict liability offence but including the concept of “reasonable excuse” might be to impose a burden on the person who is responsible for filing the misleading s
2023-03-27 Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill
I was going to make a similar point. Obviously, there are a number of different classes of shares; as it stands, the amendment is, with respect, a little unclear as to how it would operate in relation to voting shares, non-voting shares, preference share
2023-02-08 Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill
My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness. I am happy to say that she has spared your Lordships some of my remarks, because I agree with everything that she said about whistleblowing and so shall say nothing about that at all. I also
2022-10-28 Coroners (Determination of Suicide) Bill [HL]
My Lords, I too support this Bill. Because I agree with everything that has been said so far, I shall try to avoid wasting your Lordships’ time by repeating points that have already been made. I declare my interests as a member of Peers for Gambling Ref
2022-10-13 Imprisonment for Public Protection Scheme
My Lords, it is an honour to follow the noble and learned Lord. I read yesterday his judgment in the Roberts case in 2016, in which the Court of Appeal described the circumstances of various offences which had led to the imposition of IPP sentences in th
2022-10-13 Loot Boxes
My Lords, I am also a member of Peers for Gambling Reform, led tirelessly by the noble Lord, Lord Foster of Bath, although my contribution is negligible compared to his and to the work done by the noble Lord, Lord Butler. I agree with everything that the
2022-04-27 Gambling Harm (Social and Economic Impact of the Gambling Industry Committee Report)
My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness. I declare various interests. I was honoured to be on the committee chaired by the noble Lord, Lord Grade. I make a very modest contribution as a vice-chair of Peers for Gambling Reform, which
2022-02-21 Judicial Review and Courts Bill
May I just ask a question about the middle way proposed by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Etherton? Would the bar he is proposing—which would, as it were, place a lid over the High Court so that matters could not travel from the High Court to the Cour
2022-02-09 Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill
My Lords, I respectfully agree with much of what the noble and learned Lord said about the drafting of this clause and agree that it should not be treated as a precedent in the future for other ouster clauses. The drafting is unprecedented, because the d
2022-02-07 Judicial Review and Courts Bill
My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, and I agree with what he said about the glorious success of the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, assisted by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Garnier, in Miller 2, but I will not go into that now. I agr
2021-07-01 UK Government Union Capability
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Earl on his illuminating speech introducing this debate. I merely wish to make one observation about the following passage in chapter 4 of the review, which discusses intergovernmental relations: “While the Review th
2021-05-18 Queen’s Speech
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness. I had the privilege of being on the Select Committee on the Social and Economic Impact of the Gambling Industry, which reported in July 2020. I draw attention to my declaration of interests in that
2020-11-04 Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions) (England) (No. 4) Regulations 2020
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness. These regulations place everyone in the country under a form of qualified house arrest. The freedom to travel, to go into a friend’s house, to play sport, to go to the pub—all taken away. Lord Sump
2020-10-19 United Kingdom Internal Market Bill
My Lords, while listening to the many powerful speeches condemning part 5 of this Bill, I have wondered how the arguments in favour of these controversial provisions might be best presented. First, the phrase “breach of international law” is a loose expr
2019-09-06 European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) Bill
Perhaps I may assist the House by addressing this point, which arises out of the observations of the noble Lord, Lord Kerr. He indeed drafted Article 50. It is drafted in terms that do not expressly confer a right to withdraw an Article 50 notification.
2019-09-06 European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) Bill
My Lords, I support the noble Baroness’s amendment. She is clearly right, and I hope that will be accepted around the House. The drafting of the Bill treats the European Council’s response to the request for an extension as if it might take one of two fo
2019-05-23 Parliament: Freedom of Speech and the Rule of Law
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, although I have the misfortune to disagree with his conclusion. My view, with respect to the noble Lord, Lord Hain, who obviously acted in what he considered was the proper way, is that this was not a
2019-04-08 European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill
My Lords, I am yet another lawyer. I apologise for that. I will not detain the House for long. I respectfully agree with the noble and learned Lord, Lord Judge, that this came to the House as a bad Bill—I would say a very bad Bill. It sought to send t
2019-03-25 Brexit
My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Cormack, and before him the noble Earl, Lord Sandwich. I found myself agreeing with much—not everything, but much—of what they said. I also hope that their prayers prove to be efficacious, b
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Register of Interests · 2 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.

  • Practising Barrister (King's Counsel)
    registered 2015-11-26 · amended 2025-04-05

Category 3: Land and property

  • Farm in Wiltshire
    registered 2015-11-26 · amended 2025-04-05
Source: UK Parliament Members API (Lords register). Refreshed weekly. Read the full Lords Code of Conduct for what each category covers and the disclosure thresholds.

Party history

2015-10-222026-04-29
Crossbench

Government posts

None recorded.

Opposition posts

None recorded.

Committee memberships

2019-06-132020-06-16
Gambling Industry Committee

Contact

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APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s)

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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.
Source: UK Parliament Bills API. "Lead" sponsor is the primary mover (sortOrder = 1); "Supporter" rows are members of either House who backed the bill at introduction. Year is the bill's first-reading date.

Historic bills (all-time)

0 bills 0 as lead sponsor 0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported on record.
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