Lord Bach was brought back into government as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice replacing former Lord Hunt of Kings Heath OBE. Lord Bach was chairman of the SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems SpA Board of Directors and Director (UK) of Italian arms company Finmeccanica until 2007, when he resigned from the board in order to return to his role as a government whip. In October 2008, Lord Bach was promoted to become a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Justice, where he served until May 2010. In October 2013, Lord Bach became a Shadow Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister on the Official Opposition frontbench headed by Ed Miliband. On 3 December 2014, he took on the additional role of Shadow Attorney General following the resignation of Emily Thornberry. He was replaced by Catherine McKinnell after the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party leader. The Bach Commission The Bach Commission was founded at the end of 2015, and worked to find evidence on the current legal aid crisis in the UK justice system. Lord Bach chairs this commission, with Sir Henry Brooke as vice-chair. The Commission argued that LASPO had severely affected access to justice, and identified six key features in the justice system to demonstrate this. Personal life In Who's Who, Lord Bach listed his interests as watching cricket and football (he is a supporter of Leicester City FC). He is married, with three children. He is also a great-nephew of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst. References External links Announcement of his introduction at the House of Lords 1946 births Alumni of New College, Oxford Councillors in Leicestershire English barristers Labour Party (UK) Baronesses- and Lords-in-Waiting Labour Party (UK) life peers Living people People educated at Westminster School, London Labour Party police and crime commissioners Labour Party (UK) councillors Life peers created by Elizabeth II