David Hacking, 3rd Baron Hacking (born 17 April 1938), is a British arbitrator, barrister and hereditary peer.

Education and military career

He was educated at Aldro preparatory school,

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and

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, from where he graduated BA in 1961; he received his MA in 1968. His professional education was at the

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. He served in the

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from 1954 to 1964, seeing active service 1956-8 and reaching the rank of Lieutenant.

Career in law

Hacking is a qualified barrister and solicitor in England and Wales as well as an Attorney in the

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. He has worked for over 40 years as an international arbitrator and mediator of commercial disputes.

House of Lords

Having inherited the title Baron Hacking from his father in 1971, Hacking sat in the

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for over 20 years, contributing to reform of arbitration law and related areas. Having sat as a

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, in 1998 he defected to

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over the European and law and order policies of then party leader

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. He lost his automatic right to a seat under the

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. He sought to return to the House in the by-election caused by the death of Lord Milner of Leeds in 2003. He stood in several subsequent

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(as a crossbencher), and succeeded in 2021 as a Labour candidate to replace Viscount Simon, 47 years after he first entered the Lords in 1974. He took the oath again on Thursday, 2 December 2021, Lord Hacking made his second maiden speech on 7 February 2022, reflecting on the number of Baronesses in the Lords compared to when he left in 1999, remembering his first maiden speech which he nearly made 50 years ago, on 26 April 1972 & the amount of amendments on legalisation going through the Lords. Lord Hacking is the oldest hereditary peer to have been elected during hereditary peers by elections.

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* Living people 1938 births People educated at Aldro People educated at Charterhouse School Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge 3 British barristers Conservative Party (UK) hereditary peers Labour Party (UK) hereditary peers Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Royal Naval Reserve personnel {{UK-baron-stub Hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999 Hereditary peers removed under the House of Lords Act 1999