NLJ this week: Will Starmer still be a human rights lawyer as PM?

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’.