article_snippet.sent: … distinguished barrister… author… broadcaster… former president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews.
article_snippet.sent: After training at the University of Cambridge and Harvard Law School, he qualified as a barrister in 1954 and was appointed a QC in 1971.
article_snippet.sent: he has fought tirelessly for the return of Jewish assets held in Swiss banks by the Nazis, and was made a life peer on he retirement from the Commons in recognition of he achievements in public life.
article_snippet.sent: Janner, 86, is a father of three.
article_snippet.sent: his youngest daughter, Laura Janner-Klausner, 51, is an ordained rabbi and serves as senior rabbi at the Movement for Reform Judaism.
article_snippet.sent: his son Daniel Janner is a prominent QC.
article_snippet.sent: Fellow Labour MP Keith Vaz described Janner as a ‘brave man’ and others passed on leader Neil Kinnock’s ‘tremendous support’.
article_snippet.sent: Influential: Janner was chair of the Holocaust Educational Trust and vice-president of the World Jewish Congress .