Campaigner Lord Grocott urged colleagues to move faster in scrutinising legislation set to oust hereditary peers.

Lord Hermer is cut from the same silk as the Starmer of 2015. The human rights law specialists are close personal friends, having practised as colleagues at Doughty Street Chambers in the noughties.

Attorney General Lord Hermer heaped praise on Shiner even after the human rights lawyer’s war crime claims against British troops were dismissed by a public inquiry as ‘deliberate lies’.

Lord Hermer helped secure a £750,000 payout for almost 200 prisoners who had been stopped from taking heroin substitutes behind bars. In a High Court test case in the 2000s, the Attorney General ...

Attorney General has refused to declare financial interests and if he’d recused himself from Government decisions involving former clients Senior Labour figures were turning on Lord Hermer on ...

Lord Hermer's decisions as the Government's chief law officer have come under scrutiny as details of his previous clients have emerged. Yesterday, it was reported that he defended an Islamist ...

Lord Hermer also appeared to question if a new law and order crackdown on zealots like Extinction Rebellion was needed. The explosive comments pile yet more pressure on the Cabinet minister ...

Attorney General Richard Hermer leaves Number 10 following the first cabinet meeting since Labour formed a government under Sir Keir Starmer at Downing Street on July 6, 2024 in London ...

The Conservative Party leader raised doubts about the suitability of Lord Hermer as Attorney General during her weekly clash with Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister’s Questions. Mrs Badenoch ...

The Liberal Democrats have written to the attorney general, Lord Hermer, as pressure mounts on the government to seize frozen Russian assets and repurpose them to fund support for Ukraine. The calls ...

So when the government is under pressure for its excessive respect for international law, it is no wonder that Lord Hermer is taking so much of the heat. In any conversation about a possible ...

Lord Hermer dined with a co-founder and senior partner of Leigh Day, a law firm with a history of acting for clients suing ...