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    Interesting that Phil Shiner, the human rights lawyer, got done for false abuse claims Archived Message

    Posted by Tomski on December 10, 2020, 8:19 pm, in reply to "1. Ignore public protests, most go away"

    From his bio, it seems he was a high-flying human rights lawyer. And yet he managed to get trapped/done. Weird. Was there more to this?

    Who is Phil Shiner? / Facts

    He was Head of Strategic Litigation at Public Interest Lawyers (International) from 2014 until the firm's closure on 31 August 2016

    He had previously been Principal at Public Interest Lawyers Ltd from 1999 to 2014
    He was struck off as a lawyer in 2017 over misconduct relating to false abuse claims against British troops

    He was educated at the University of Birmingham (LLB, 1978) and the University of Warwick (LLM, 1985)

    He was an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Warwick from 1999 to 2004, an Honorary Professor of Law at London Metropolitan University from 2005 to 2013 and a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics from 2005 to 2013

    He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Law from the University of Kent in 2012

    Shiner was named human rights lawyer of the year in 2004, an award given jointly by the human rights organisations Liberty and JUSTICE, for "his tremendous skill, tenacity and dedication to fighting for justice"

    In 2007, he was named the Law Society's solicitor of the year

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