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Spring initiatives

28 March 2014 / Roger Smith
Issue: 7600 / Categories: Opinion
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Roger Smith celebrates some seasonal highlights

As the weather warms and the sun comes out, three initiatives to celebrate: a new career; an institutional drive; and international support to be given.

A career reborn

Former DPP Sir Keir Starmer QC shows every sign of smoothly moving to the next stage of his life. He is widely tipped to replace the long-serving Frank Dobson as MP for Holborn and St Pancras. And he is making his own luck as to issues. First, he has developed a nice line in defending the human rights of victims, writing about this in The Guardian and assiduously speaking on the subject at constituency-based venues like Camden’s Working Men’s College. Second, the government’s proposals for HS2 are presenting him with a wonderfully convenient canvass on which to argue that there has been inadequate consultation, as required by the Human Rights Act 1998, at the heart of his putative constituency around Euston.

Sir Keir is a Dartmouth Park resident, physically near to Ed Miliband himself. It would be surprising if there was not

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

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