Phil Shiner
- January 10, 2024
- Solicitor
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Phil Shiner Biography
| Name | Phil Shiner |
| Birthday | Dec 25 |
| Birth Year | 1956 |
| Place Of Birth | Coventry |
| Home Town | Coventry |
| Birth Sign | Aquarius |
| Children(s) | 5 |
Phil Shiner is one of the most popular and richest Solicitor who was born on December 25, 1956 in Coventry, Coventry, ****. Philip Joseph Shiner (born 25 December 1956) is a disgraced British former human rights solicitor. He was Head of Strategic Litigation at Public Interest Lawyers (International) from 2014 until the firm’s closure on 31 August 2016. He had previously been Principal at Public Interest Lawyers Ltd from 1999 to 2014. He was struck off the roll of solicitors in England and Wales in 2017 over misconduct relating to false abuse claims against British troops.
Early courtroom successes for him in the Baha Mousa case were followed by controversy about other allegations, ‘the most serious of which turned out to be wholly untrue’. He claimed that ‘UK soldiers had captured, tortured and murdered innocent Iraqi civilians after the Battle of Danny Boy near Amara in 2004’. In 2014, a report by the Al-Sweady Inquiry showed that the dead ‘had been members of the Mahdi army militia, who ambushed a British patrol and were killed in exchanges of gunfire. Shiner subsequently admitted paying an Iraqi middleman to find claimants, a practice that is in breach of professional standards’.
Shiner declared himself bankrupt in March 2017, owing almost £7 million. In February 2018, the Insolvency Service (IS) found that Shiner had sold his own house to his family and put it into a trust that had allowed him to live there. He also sold two commercial properties for £550,000 each and transferred two £3,500 guitars into the family trust. The IS estimates they have recovered over £483,000 but must continue to work on locating another £6.5 million of Shiner’s assets.
By the time he was struck off in February 2017, Ihat ‘had fewer than 250 active investigations’. About a week later Britain’s Defence Secretary Michael Fallon announced that Ihat would soon be shut down, largely due to the exposing of Shiner’s ‘dishonesty’.
Shiner had ‘led the pursuit of legal claims against British troops for their treatment of Iraqi detainees after the 2003 invasion’. The law firm Public Interest Lawyers (PIL), of which he was the only director and the owner of 100% of its shares (and which subsequently closed down in August 2016), was ‘instrumental in passing on about 65% of the 3,392 allegations received by’ the Iraq Historic Allegations Team (Ihat).
Phil Shiner Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Solicitor |
| House | Living in own house. |
Phil Shiner is one of the richest Solicitor from . According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Phil Shiner 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Shiner was educated at the University of Birmingham (LLB, 1978) and the University of Warwick (LLM, 1985). He was an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Warwick from 1999 to 2004, an Honorary Professor of Law at London Metropolitan University from 2005 to 2013, and a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics from 2005 to 2013. In July 2012, the University of Kent awarded him an honorary doctorate of law, which the university revoked in November 2017 following the findings of misconduct against him.
Shiner’s disgrace also resulted in criticism by former army officers of Baroness Chakrabarti, the Labour Party’s shadow attorney general. Johnny Mercer MP, a retired Army captain, chided her for ‘an almost child-like understanding of military operations’ and for ‘trying to retrospectively apply European Human Rights Law to the battlefield’. Richard Kemp, a retired Army colonel and commander of the first Task Force Helmand in Afghanistan in 2003, accused Baroness Chakrabarti of being ‘one of [Shiner’s] greatest supporters’ before his downfall, and of ‘helping him lose his way’ as a result of such support. He said that she had been saddened by Shiner’s downfall and had said that, before apparently ‘losing his way’, he had ‘given good service to the public’ and ‘did some very good work that has been upheld by a judicial inquiry into, for example, the torture and killing of Baha Mousa in Iraq.’
Shiner was named human rights lawyer of the year in 2004, an award given jointly by the human rights organisations Liberty and JUSTICE, for ‘his tremendous skill, tenacity and dedication to fighting for justice’. In 2007, he was named the Law Society’s solicitor of the year. From 2004 to 2014 he was a regular contributor to The Guardian newspaper.
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Top Facts about Phil Shiner
- Phil Shiner was a British human rights lawyer.
- He founded the law firm Public Interest Lawyers (PIL).
- PIL brought claims against UK military in Iraq.
- Shiner was struck off for dishonesty and misconduct.
- He admitted to acting recklessly and without integrity.
- The Al-Sweady Inquiry found his claims were “wholly without foundation”.
- The inquiry cost taxpayers £31 million ($40 million).
- Shiner’s actions caused distress to soldiers and families.
- His case led to calls for reform of legal aid system.
- Shiner declared bankruptcy with debts of over £7 million ($9 million).
What happened to lawyer in Danny Boy?
He was found guilty of 22 misconduct charges (via The Guardian) and struck off for dishonesty in 2017. Public Interest Lawyers is also now defunct. In 2020, former defence secretary Sir Michael Fallon said (via The Telegraph): “Phil Shiner has never really apologised and it is now time that he did.
Who played Phil Shiner?
Anthony Boyle plays the real-life soldier Brian Wood, accused of war crimes in Iraq by the tenacious human rights lawyer Phil Shiner (played by Toby Jones ). The two men go head to head in a legal and moral conflict that takes us from battlefield to courtroom.
Who is the lawyer in Danny Boy?
The feature-length drama sees Brian (played by Anthony Boyle) embroiled in a long and complex legal battle with human rights lawyer Phil Shiner (Toby Jones).
What is Brian Woods doing now?
Brian is now a public speaker, across the United Kingdom and Europe. He speaks out about putting an end to ‘witch-hunts’ of soldiers. In 2020, he backed a new law to end these witch-hunts. In the same year, he led a group of veterans suing the MoD over the phoney war crimes claims.
What happened in the end of Danny Boy?
In the closing moments of Danny Boy, we’re told that the Al-Sweady enquiry, which was named after Hamid Al-Sweady, a 19-year-old Iraqi who was said to have been unlawfully killed by British forces , heard 13 months of evidence regarding the Battle of Danny Boy – christened as such after a nearby vehicle checkpoint.