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Founding members

In addition to our legal patrons and the members of the PBI UK Lawyers’ Advisory Committee, the following individuals and firms became the founding members of the Alliance:

Individuals

The Hon Michael Beloff QC

Sir Geoffrey Bindman

Lionel Blackman (Chair, Solicitors’ International Human Rights Group)

Diane Burleigh (Chief Executive, Institute of Legal Executives)

Lord Carlile of Berriew QC

Dr David James Cantor (School of Advanced Study - University of London)

Shami Chakrabarti CBE

The Rt Hon Lord Justice Carnwath

David Cheyne (former Senior Partner, Linklaters)

Professor Christine Chinkin

Jonathan Cooper OBE

The Hon Sir Peter Cresswell

Jonathan Crow QC

Malcolm Davis-White QC (Chairman, Chancery Bar Association)

Baroness Deech (Chair of the Bar Standards Board)

David Dickinson (Senior Partner, Simmons & Simmons)

James Dingemans QC

Richard Drabble QC

Timothy Dutton QC

Richard De Friend (Director, College of Law Bloomsbury Centre)

Michael Ellman (past chair, Solicitors’ International Human Rights Group)

Tony Fisher (Chair, Law Society Human Rights Committee)

Nicholas Green QC (Chairman of the Bar Council)

Jonathan Hirst QC

Stephen Hockman QC

Zoe Johnson

Richard Keen QC (Dean of Faculty)

The Rt Hon Sir David Keene

Sir Sydney Kentridge QC

Christopher Kinch QC (Chairman, Criminal Bar Association)

Robin Knowles CBE QC

Jonathan Laidlaw QC

Paul Lasok QC

Linda Lee (President of the Law Society)

Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC

Sir Jeremy Lever QC

Stephen Leslie QC

Dorian Lovell-Pank QC

Michael Mansfield QC

Paul Medelle QC

David Morley (Senior Partner, Allen & Overy)

Mark Muller QC (Chair, Bar Human Rights Committee)

The Rt Hon Sir Brian Neill

Tim Otty QC

Lord Pannick QC

Andrew Phillips (Lord Phillips of Sudbury)

Nigel Pleming QC

Stuart Popham (Senior Partner, Clifford Chance)

The Rt Hon Sir Mark Potter

Tom Price QC

Geoffrey Robertson QC

Professor Sir Nigel Rodley 

Dinah Rose QC

Murray Rosen QC (Herbert Smith)

The Hon Mr Justice Sales

The Rt Hon Baroness Scotland of Ashtal QC

Lucy Scott-Moncrieff (Partner Scott-Moncrieff, Harbour and Sinclair)

Phil Shiner

Rabinder Singh QC

Rock Tansey QC

Michael Todd QC

The Hon Mr Justice Vos

Anesta Weekes QC

John Wotton (Vice-President of the Law Society)

The Rt Hon Lord Woolf of Barnes

Firms and other legal bodies:

Bar Council

The Bar Human Rights Committee

Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh

Fisher Meredith

Hansen Palomares

Hodge Jones & Allen LLP

International Bar Association

The Law Society

Linklaters

Tuckers

Reed Smith LLP

Solicitors International Human Rights Group

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