Daniel Greenberg (lawyer) explained

Daniel Isaac Greenberg (born September 1965) has been the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards since January 2023.^{[1] [2]}

Biography

Daniel Greenberg was born in Golders Green, Northwest London and grew up in an Orthodox Jewish community.^[3]

His early career included time working in the Lord Chancellor's Department, the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel, and the Office of Speaker's Counsel. He recently served as counsel for domestic legislation in the House of Commons.

He has also served as editor of Stroud's Judicial Dictionary (2000–2016) and Craies on Legislation (2004–2016), general editor of Jowitt's Dictionary of English Law (2010–2015) and the Annotated Statutes and Insight Encyclopaedia, editor-in-chief of the Statute Law Review (2012), and contributing consultant editor to the Oxford English Dictionary.

Greenberg was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to Parliament.

In January 2021, he wrote an editorial in the Jewish Chronicle criticising some Haredi Jewish groups for not following COVID-19 restrictions, in which he suggests that "any community that tolerates has no connection with Jewish law or values and has become simply a self-indulgent and dangerous sect".^[4]

Bibliography

• Book: 2009. How to Become Jewish (And Why Not To). Grosvenor House. 978-1-906645-96-0. Guildford.
• Book: Laying Down the Law: A Discussion of the People, Processes and Problems that Shape Acts of Parliament. 2011. Sweet & Maxwell. London. 978-0-414-04693-1.
• Book: 2012. Halsbury's Laws of England. 96. Statutes and Legislative Process. LexisNexis . London. 978-1-4743-0957-8.
• Book: What If God's a Christian? An Orthodox But Sceptical Jewish View of the World. Grosvenor House. Tolworth. 2017 . 978-1-78623-978-5.
• Book: Legislating for Wales . University of Wales Press . Cardiff . 2018 . 978-1-78683-300-6. With Thomas Glyn Watkin.
• Book: A Tale of Two Rabbis - Faith and Fraud . 2020 . 979-8558704297.
• Book: Getting A Get . 2022 . 979-8841609940.

Notes and References

1. News: . 19 October 2022 . Daniel Greenberg becomes MPs' standards tsar in wake of outside job scandals . The Guardian . 8 November 2022.
2. Web site: Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards - UK Parliament . 25 January 2023 . UK Parliament.
3. Web site: Dawson . Rosie . 2022-12-29 . Decency above all: how Jewish faith has shaped the life of new parliamentary commissioner . 2023-01-25 . Religion Media Centre . en-GB.
4. Web site: The lifestyle of many Charedim has become incompatible with Judaism. 1 February 2021. Daniel. Greenberg. The Jewish Chronicle. 28 January 2021.