Stuart Weir Author

Francesca Klug is a Fellow of the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, and a policy consultant for Charter 88. She is author of A People’s Charter, Liberty’s acclaimed Bill of Rights for the UK, and was Director of the Civil Liberties Trust.

Keir Starmer is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, London, specialising in human rights cases. He is editor of Justice in Error, an in-depth analysis of the criminal justice system, and sat on the independent inquiry into the West Midlands Serious Crimes Squad.

Stuart Weir is Director of the Democratic Audit and Senior Research Fellow at the HumanRights Centre, University of Essex. He edited the New Statesman from 1987 to 1991 and is founder of Charter 88.