02 August 2024
He may have hit the ground running at speed, but what will Keir Starmer, lawyer, really be like as prime minister?
In this week’s issue, Roger Smith, NLJ columnist & former director of JUSTICE, looks at Starmer’s career as a human rights lawyer and how it is likely to shape his time in Downing Street.
For, as Smith writes, ‘in the early days of the Human Rights Act 1998, he was the human rights lawyer. He spoke at JUSTICE conference after conference. His book for the Legal Action Group, European Human Rights Law, was the bible on potential interpretation of the new Act. Everyone used it’.
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