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Peter Herbert

Independent Member

A barrister, a Recorder in the Crown Court who also sits as a Part time Immigration Judge and Employment Tribunal Chair. He is presently Chair of the Society of Black Lawyers, and is a campaigning human rights advocate within the community.

Peter continues to have a wide range of professional interests ranging from employment discrimination to deaths in custody and child care law. He has chaired several mental health homicide enquiries, and is a former member of the Attorney General's Race Advisory Committee and Home Secretary's Race Panel. He was awarded the American Bar Association diversity award in Philadelphia in 2002 and recently led a Foreign Office delegation to Georgia and Washington DC to look at Hate Crime and Youth Crime in the USA.

He Chairs the pan-London independent Race Hate Crimes Forum, helping to combat racial violence in the capital and has appeared as Lead Counsel in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

Specific interests

• Stop and Search
• Race hate crimes
• Deaths in custody and critical incidents

MPA Link Member for:

• London borough of Barnet

Contact details

• Telephone: 020 7202 0184
• Email: membersservices@mpa.gov.uk

The following pages on the MPA website are relevant:

• Speech: 23 Mar 01 - (temporarily withdrawn until after local elections)
  Metropolitan Police Stop and Search