Arbitrator, barrister and hereditary peer.
School - Charterhouse
Graduated from Clare College in 1961
MA 1968
Inns of Court School of Law
1954-1964 - served in the Royal Naval Reserve, seeing active service 1956-8 and reaching the rank of Lieutenant.
Has worked for over 40 years as an international arbitrator and mediator of commercial disputes
Inherited the title Baron Hacking from his father in 1971.