http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/shami-chakrabarti-internment-without-trial-is-festering-sore-on-national-conscience-537679.html
Interesting how a lawyer, who is heavily connected with the British American Project joins LIBERTY on the 10th September 2001. A day before the attacks on the Twin Towers.
bryan
08-02-2009, 09:38 PM
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/shami-chakrabarti-internment-without-trial-is-festering-sore-on-national-conscience-537679.html
Interesting how a lawyer, who is heavily connected with the British American Project joins LIBERTY on the 10th September 2001. A day before the attacks on the Twin Towers.
Intentionally ineffective fake opposition.
Her private practice lasted less than a year before she took a job as a Home Office legal adviser. She worked on the 1996 Asylum Bill before working on legislation, including the Human Rights Act, under Jack Straw and then leaving to become Liberty's in-house lawyer.
She joined Liberty on 10 September 2001, the day before the al-Qa'ida attacks on New York and Washington. She is scathing about the legislation that followed, which allowed the detention without trial of terrorist suspects from abroad.
The list of her predecessors should tell people whose side Liberty are on.
She had not yet taken over the director's office from John Wadham, who is leaving after eight years to become the deputy chairman of the Police Complaints Authority.
Leading figures from the organisation have gone on to senior jobs in Government. Patricia Hewitt, the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, was its general secretary in the late 1970s, while Harriet Harman, now the Solicitor General, was its legal officer.
white horse
08-02-2009, 10:42 PM
The clue is in the name... SHAM...
Whether intentionally or not, she is wheeled out at evry opportunity and she always upholds the view of the rule of law...