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Full Title: The Rt Hon Sir Keir Starmer KCB KC MPCategory: Ordinary Bencher Bench Call Date: 30.6.2009 Call Date: 24.11.1987 Bio: Director of Public Prosecutions since November 2008 and former Joint Head of Doughty Street Chambers specialising in human rights, international and criminal law. He has conducted many cases before the House of Lords, the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. He has been Called to the Bar in the Bahamas, Belize, St Vincent, St Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago, and has worked on cases in Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria and Malawi. He was named Human Rights Lawyer of the Year in 2001, and QC of the Year in Human Rights and Public Law in 2007. Starmer was elected as Labour leader in April 2020. In July 2024, he was appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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