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HARDtalk: Keir Starmer QC

Keir Starmer

08/01/2014

Keir Starmer QC

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HARDtalk asks Keir Starmer QC if English laws and courts are really fit for purpose.

HARDtalk asks Keir Starmer, former director of public prosecutions, if the pillars of the English judicial system, the laws and the courts, are really fit for purpose.

Is English justice all it is cracked up to be? HARDtalk speaks to Keir Starmer, the top barrister who has just stepped down after five years as the director of public prosecutions, in effect the chief prosecutor in England and Wales. Are the pillars of the English judicial system, the laws and the courts, really fit for purpose?

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