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Jonathan Hall QC is the new terror laws watchdog - a really important post in overseeing how the government and others uses these powerful tools. Appointment comes six months after Max Hill QC left the post to become the DPP - and 10 months since we knew he was going to move on.
Jonathan Hall has bags of experience in national security, sensitive policing and general spookiness before the courts. He's been the Met Police's lead counsel fighting for their position in the much-troubled Undercover Policing Inquiry. Profile: 6kbw.com/people/barrist…
Back in 2015 he was part of a team representing MI5 in a high-profile attempt by a counter-terrorism convict to sue the agency over its alleged complicity in the individual's torture by Pakistan's intelligence people.
