Dominic Grieve Shadow Attorney General Dominic Grieve was born in 1956. He was educated at Westminster School and Magdalen College Oxford, where he studied Modern History. He was called to the Bar in 1980. He is married to Caroline who is also a barrister and they have two boys, James aged 10 and Hugo aged 9. He was elected Member of Parliament for Beaconsfield in 1997. He has been Secretary of the Conservative Backbench Committee on the Constitution, Legal Affairs and Northern Ireland. He was a Member of the Select Committee on Environmental Audit and the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments from 1997-1999. In June 1999 he was appointed by the then Leader of the Party William Hague, to be the Conservative spokesman for Scotland. In September 2001 he was appointed by the Leader of the Party Iain Duncan-Smith to be the Conservative spokesman for criminal justice and community cohesion as part of the Shadow Home Affairs team. In November 2003 under the leadership of Michael Howard Dominic was appointed Shadow Attorney General together with his Home Affairs brief. He has been a local councillor in Fulham in the 1980s, and Chairman of the Research Committee of the Society of Conservative Lawyers as well as a lay visitor to police stations. He has been a Member of the London Diocesan Synod of the Church of England and is a deputy Church Warden. His areas of strong political interest include Law and Order, Constitution, European Union, Defence, Environment and Foreign Affairs.