Starmer became a barrister in 1987 at the Middle Temple.
He became a bencher at Middle Temple in 2009.
Early Career:
Served as a legal officer for the campaign group Liberty until 1990.
Joined Doughty Street Chambers in 1990, focusing on human rights issues.
International Work:
Called to the bar in several Caribbean countries.
Defended convicts sentenced to the death penalty in the Caribbean.
Achievements and Positions
Appointed Queen’s Counsel (QC) on April 9, 2002, at the age of 39.
Served as a human rights adviser to the Northern Ireland Policing Board and the Association of Chief Police Officers.
In July 2008, he was appointed Starmer as the head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and Director of Public Prosecutions.
Starmer was noted for bringing a focus on human rights into the legal system.
Reforms: In 2011, he introduced the “first test paperless hearing”.
Operation Yewtree: In 2013, implemented changes to how sexual abuse investigations are handled.
In this process, he created a panel to review historic complaints amid Operation Yewtree.
Awards and Honors
Pro Bono Recognition: Received the Bar Council’s Sydney Elland Goldsmith Award in 2005 for outstanding pro bono work in challenging the death penalty in Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, and the Caribbean.
Academic Honor: Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath: Appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to law and criminal justice.
Privy Council Membership: Sworn into the Privy Council of the United Kingdom on 19 July 2017.
It allows him to be styled “The Right Honourable”.
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