David Lock

David Lock QC
Member of Parliament for Wyre Forest
In office 1 May 1997 – 7 June 2001
Preceded by	Anthony Coombs
Succeeded by	Richard Taylor
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Born	2 May 1960 (1960-05-02) (age 51)
Nationality	English
Political party	Labour
Alma mater	Jesus College, Cambridge; Polytechnic of Central London

David Anthony Lock QC (born 2 May 1960) is a barrister and former Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was educated at Esher Grammar School, Woking Sixth Form College, Jesus College, Cambridge (MA theology 1982), Polytechnic of Central London (Diploma in law 1984) and went on to Gray's Inn as a Wilson Scholar in 1985.^[1]

He was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wyre Forest in the 1997 general election, but lost his seat in the 2001 election to Richard Taylor, the Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern candidate.

He became the first Labour MP in the Wyre Forest for many years but lost his seat when he supported changes to the accident and emergency services at Kidderminster General Hospital in the face of public opposition. The downgrading of emergency services at Kidderminster were the first of many such changes across the country, many of which attracted trenchant local opposition.

Following his election defeat he became a director of Searchflow Limited and founded a litigation funding company, IML Limited. In January 2002 he became Chair of the Service Authorities to the National Crime Squad and National Criminal Intelligence Service and was concerned with the merger of those bodies to become the Serious Organised Crime Agency. In late 2003 he returned to legal practice, heading up healthcare law at the law firm Mills & Reeve. He was then involved in a series of high profile legal cases concerning healthcare and in 2008 returned to practice at the Bar. He presently leads the public law team an No5 Chambers, in London and Birmingham, and was a member of the Department of Health Organ Donation Taskforce in 2008/09.

He is Chair of the West Midlands Labour Finance and Industry Group and is a qualified paraglider pilot. He was made a QC in 2011 and was the Birmingham Law Society's choice of "Barrister of the Year" in April 2011.^[2]

References

1. ^ BBC candidate profiles 2001 election
2. ^ "David Lock scoops ‘Barrister of the Year’ title". No5 Chambers. http://www.no5.com/news-publications/news/david-lock-scoops-%E2%80%98barrister-of-the-year%E2%80%99-title. 

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by David Lock

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Anthony Coombs	Member of Parliament for Wyre Forest 1997–2001	Succeeded by Richard Taylor

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Name	Lock, David
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Date of birth	2 May 1960
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