“Phil has caused the government a great deal of aggravation over the last 15 years,” Lord Hermer said. “He’s brought successfully some extraordinarily important cases that have exposed systemic use of torture, for example, by the British Army in Iraq.” This was in 2015 — just a months after Shiner's claims of execution and torture of Iraqis were totally rejected by a High Court inquiry.
At the time of the speech, Shiner was under investigation by the Solicitor's Regulation Authority. Shiner would later plead guilty to fraud, but escape jail, and Hermer would go on to become UK’s Attorney General.
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