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{{Infobox officeholder
|honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
|name             = The Lord Hacking 
|honorific-suffix = 
|image            = 
| office1          = [[Member of the House of Lords]]
| status1          = [[Lords Temporal|Lord Temporal]]
| term_label1      = as a [[hereditary peer]]
| term_start1      = 7 November 1971
| term_end1        = 11 November 1999
| predecessor1     = [[Douglas Hacking, 2nd Baron Hacking|The 2nd Baron Hacking]]
| successor1       = ''[[House of Lords Act 1999|Seat abolished]]''
| term_label2      = as an [[List of hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999|elected hereditary peer]]
| term_start2      = 19 November 2021
| term_end2        = 
| 1blankname2      = [[By-elections to the House of Lords|By-election]]
| 1namedata2       = 19 November 2021
| predecessor2     = [[Jan David Simon, 3rd Viscount Simon|The 3rd Viscount Simon]]
| successor2       = 
|birth_date       = {{birth date and age|1938|4|17|df=y}}
|birth_place      = 
|death_date       = 
|death_place      = 
|party            = [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] (1998-2003, since 2021)<br/>[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]<br/>(until 1998)
|alma_mater       = [[Clare College, Cambridge]]<br/> [[City Law School|Inns of Court School of Law]]
}}
'''David Hacking, 3rd Baron Hacking''' (born 17 April 1938), is a British [[arbitration|arbitrator]], [[barrister]] and [[hereditary peer]].<ref>{{cite news
| title       = David Hacking
| first       = Sean 
| last        = Farrell
| url         = http://www.thelawyer.com/david-hacking/101247.article
| newspaper   = The Lawyer
| date        = 10 January 2000
| access-date = 28 June 2011
}}</ref>

==Education and military career==
He was educated at [[Aldro School|Aldro]] [[Preparatory school (United Kingdom)|preparatory school]], [[Charterhouse School|Charterhouse]] and [[Clare College, Cambridge]], from where he graduated [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] in 1961; he received his [[Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin)|MA]] in 1968. His professional education was at the [[City Law School|Inns of Court School of Law]]. He served in the [[Royal Naval Reserve]] from 1954 to 1964, seeing active service 1956-8 and reaching the rank of Lieutenant.

==Career in law==
Hacking is a qualified barrister and solicitor in England and Wales as well as an [[Attorneys in the United States|Attorney]] in the [[United States]]. He has worked for over 40 years as an international arbitrator and mediator of commercial disputes.

==House of Lords==
Having inherited the title [[Baron Hacking]] from his father in 1971, Hacking sat in the [[House of Lords]] for over 20 years, contributing to reform of arbitration law and related areas. Having sat as a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]], in 1998 he defected to [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] over the European and law and order policies of then party leader [[William Hague]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/conservative-peer-defects-to-take-seat-on-labour-benches-1165130.html |title= Conservative peer defects to take seat on Labour benches |website= [[Independent.co.uk]] |date= 14 June 1998 |access-date=22 February 2014}}</ref> He lost his automatic right to a seat under the [[House of Lords Act 1999]]. He sought to return to the House in the by-election caused by the death of [[Michael Milner, 2nd Baron Milner of Leeds|Lord Milner of Leeds]] in 2003.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.election.demon.co.uk/lords.html |title=United Kingdom Election Results - House of Lords Act: Hereditary Peers Elections (scroll down page to section headed 'Labour') |access-date=16 January 2011 |archive-date=21 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130121193747/http://www.election.demon.co.uk/lords.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> From 2009 to 2014, he stood in several subsequent [[By-elections to the House of Lords|by-elections]] as a [[crossbencher]], but only succeeded in 2021 as a Labour candidate to replace Viscount Simon, 47 years after he first entered the Lords in 1974. He took the oath again on Thursday, 2 December 2021, Lord Hacking made his second maiden speech on 7 February 2022, reflecting on the number of Baronesses in the Lords compared to when he left in 1999, remembering his first maiden speech which he nearly made 50 years ago, on 26 April 1972 & the amount of amendments on legalisation going through the Lords. Lord Hacking is the oldest hereditary peer to have been elected during hereditary peers by elections.

==Arms==
{{Emblem table
|image=[[File:Coronet of a British Baron.svg|centre|120px]][[File:Hacking Escutcheon.png|centre|160px]]
|escutcheon = Argent on a chevron Azure between three roses Gules barbed and seeded Proper two bird bolts of the field feathered Or.
|crest = In front of an oak tree eradicated two axes in saltire all Proper.
|supporters = On either side a griffin Gules on the shoulder an escutcheon Argent charged with a blue-bottle (cyanus) stalked and leaved Proper.
|motto = Dominus Providebit <ref>{{cite book|title=Burke's Peerage |date=1949}}</ref>}}
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==References==
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==External links==
*{{Official website|http://lordhacking.com/}}

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