Justice under Starmer’s Labour

Lawyers should welcome Sir Keir Starmer’s appointment as Leader of HM Opposition, solicitor Patrick Allen writes in NLJ.

The senior partner of Hodge, Jones & Allen highlights the Labour Leader’s ‘legal background and training… becoming a QC at the age of 39… and involved in many ground breaking cases’ such as the McLibel trial, a David and Goliath battle where two protesters defended themselves against the US behemoth’s libel action.

Allen also praises the shadow cabinet appointments and looks ahead to a possible Starmer-led government, which he believes could ‘reverse the disgraceful 25% cuts in the justice budget imposed over the past ten years in the misguided cause of austerity’.

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