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Human Rights and the Iraq War

Phil Shiner, Public Interest Lawyers

30 April 2010

Phil Shiner leads the team at Public Interest Lawyers (PIL). He is a lawyer with an international and national reputation for his work on issues concerning international, environmental and human rights law. He has been practicing as a solicitor in the UK since 1981. He has written and spoken at international and national conferences on all the areas of law covered in PIL’s present work.

Phil has developed the practice to attract top rankings in the areas of human rights and administrative and public law. He acts for over 30 Iraqi civilians killed or injured by British soldiers during the occupation in the case of Al Skeini, which will be heard at the House of Lords in April 2007. He also acts for a British national who has been held without charge in a British detention centre in Basra since October 2004 in the case of Al Jedda, which is also proceeding to the House of Lords. He acts for the families of British soldiers whose challenge to the legality of the Iraq war will be heard for three days in the Court of Appeal in November this year. In 2003 he represented CND in a judicial review challenge to the Government’s decision to go to war.

Phil is a visiting professor at London Metropolitan University and a visiting fellow at LSE. He was made “Human Rights Lawyer of the Year” by the Joint Liberty and Justice Awards in 2004.

Upcoming

Human Rights and Child Disability: Zoe Picton-Howell, University of Edinburgh (24 May 2010)

Human Rights and Prisons – a Contradiction in Terms: Andrew Coyle

Past

SHRLG Launch: Cherie Booth QC (30 September 2009)

Human Rights and the UK Parliament: Murray Hunt, Joint Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights (5 October 2009)

Human Rights and Working for a Better World: Tom Porteous, Director of Human Rights Watch, London (2 November 2009)

Public Interest Litigation and Legal Aid in Scotland: with the Environmental Law Centre Scotland and the Centre for International Public Health Policy (7 December 2009)

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Formed in May 2009, the Scottish Human Rights Law Group is a non-affiliated, independent, professional network for those engaged in legal practice and study, in academia and politics, in campaigning and in the provision of advice. It exists to raise awareness and knowledge of human rights law in Scotland, and to provide a forum for discussion of matters of interest across the field. The group organises seminars and roundtable discussions on human rights and is accredited for the purposes of CPD.