Faulks was chairman of the Professional Negligence Bar Association from 2002 to 2004, special adviser to the Department for Constitutional Affairs on compensation culture from 2005 to 2006, and head of research for the Society of Conservative Lawyers from 2010 to 2012.

In 2010 he was created a life peer as Baron Faulks, of Donnington in the Royal County of Berkshire.

[3] He served in this role until July 2016, when he resigned from the government in protest against the appointment of Liz Truss as Secretary of State for Justice by new prime minister Theresa May.

He is on the board of the social enterprise Liberty Kitchen, set up to reduce recidivism at Pentonville Prison.

Catherine Faulks is a Conservative councillor on Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council.