Phil Shiner
Phil Shiner leads the team at Public Interest Lawyers. He is a lawyer with an outstanding national and international reputation for his work on issues concerning international, environmental and human rights law.
Phil has practised as a solicitor in the UK since 1981. He has written extensively on international and human rights law, and has spoken at many conferences around the world on issues arising through PIL's work.
Phil is a committed socialist and the roots of his career as a lawyer are firmly planted in the law centre movement of the eighties. Phil has had a diverse and high profile legal career where he has always acted for the victims of injustices borne of many different circumstances.
Phil is the lawyer that succeeded in establishing two separate judicial Public Inquiries arising out of alleged unlawful behaviour of UK forces in Iraq. Firstly the Baha Mousa Inquiry and most recently the ongoing Al-Sweady Inquiry.
In recent years Phil has acted in some of the most important Judicial Review cases which are too numerous to mention. However, of significant note is that an unprecedented three of these cases have all been subsequently heard in the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights, namely Al-Skeini, Al-Jedda and Hasan.
Phil is a visiting professor at London Metropolitan University and a visiting fellow at London School of Economics. He was made "Human Rights Lawyer of the Year" in 2004 by Liberty and Justice. He was recognised by the Law Society as an outstanding achiever at the Law Society Awards in 2011.
Phil is the Honorary Vice President of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers and in 2012 Phil was presented with an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Kent in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Public Interest Law throughout his career.
Away from the office Phil enjoys spending time with his children and is also a keen cyclist and runner and competed competitively in both disciplines in his earlier years.
A Document by Phil Shiner
| Title | Document type | Publication date | Subject(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Second Baha Mousa Memorial Lecture | speech | September 2010 | Baha Mousa UK/Torture Iraq Historic Allegations Team | A shocking introduction to the systematic abuse of prisoners by the British military in Iraq and focusing on the case of Baha Mousa |
