Daniel Brennan, Baron Brennan

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Daniel Joseph Brennan, Baron Brennan QC (born 19 March 1942) is a life peer and barrister.

Daniel Brennan was educated at St. Bede's Grammar School, Bradford, and graduated with a Bachelor of Law degree from Manchester University, where subsequently he was awarded an honorary Doctorate in 2000. In 1968 he married a Spanish national, Pilar Sanchez Moya, by whom he has four sons.

A member of Matrix Chambers specialising in commercial law, international business issues, public and private international law, and international arbitration, he was called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn in 1967. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1985, and he is a Deputy High Court Judge and a Recorder in the Crown Court, a former member of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board and ex-Chairman of the Personal Injuries Bar Association.

Lord Brennan is currently the Bar representative on the Council of the International Bar Association. He is also a member of the bars of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. In 2000, British lawyers voted Lord Brennan Barrister of the Year.

He has a high profile environmental, product liability and medical negligence practice involving multi-party actions such as the insurance claims from the Paddington rail crash, the oral contraceptive litigation and, in the past, the local residents' claims arising from the Canary Wharf development scheme, the HIV/haemophiliac claims against the UK government and the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster. Most recently he has appeared in the 'designer baby' appeal in the House of Lords.

He was created Baron Brennan, of Bibury in the County of Gloucester on 2 May 2000 and is president of the Catholic Union of Great Britain. In 2006 Lord Brennan was appointed Delegate for Great Britain and Ireland of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George in succession to Mr Anthony Bailey.