Daniel Joseph Mitchell Janner (born 27 April 1957) is a British

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, specialising in criminal law. He is the founder of the FAIR (Falsely Accused Individuals for Reform) campaign, through which he has played a key role in pushing for legislation to give anonymity to those accused of sex offences.

Early life

He is the son of

Greville Janner Greville Ewan Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone, (11 July 1928 – 19 December 2015) was a British politician, barrister and writer. He became a Labour Party Member of Parliament for Leicester in the 1970 general election as a last-minute ...

, former

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MP, member of the

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and co-founder of the

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, and the grandson of the Labour MP and peer

Barnett Janner Barnett Janner, Baron Janner (20 June 1892 – 4 May 1982) was a British politician who was elected as a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) and later as a Labour MP. Early life Janner was born to a Litvak family in Luokė in the Kovno Gove ...

Education

Janner was educated at

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and

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(the same ''alma mater'' as his father), where he won the Dr Cooper's Law Studentship in 1979 and graduated with an MA (Cantab.) in the subject. He was the President of the

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and is now on its Board of Trustees.

Career

Janner was called to the Bar in 1980 (Middle Temple) and took Silk in 2002. He is known for his legal work on the

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, the

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, and his work with

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and

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on the FAIR campaign, launching a petition which received over 27,000 signatures and received an official response from Parliament.

Politics

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Janner was the Labour parliamentary candidate for Bosworth, where a combination of adverse boundary changes – most notably the removal of the Labour-leaning town of

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from the constituency – and the existence of a

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(SDP) candidate conspired to leave him in third place with only 19.5 per cent of the vote. Janner's politics then moved rightward with alacrity: having abandoned Labour for the SDP in 1985, within a year he had joined the

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, dismissing his short-lived Social Democratic affiliation as a "waste of time" and declaring that his new party was the only place to effectively fight the advance of the

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."Janner's son defects to Tories", ''The Guardian'', 13 August 1986, p. 3. From 1996 to 1999 he was the Director of Research for the

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Personal life

Janner is married with 3 children.

References

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Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge Presidents of the Cambridge Union Sons of life peers English King's Counsel