Martha Spurrier (born 1986) is a British barrister and human rights campaigner. She is the director of the advocacy group

Liberty Liberty is the ability to do as one pleases, or a right or immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant (i.e. privilege). It is a synonym for the word freedom. In modern politics, liberty is understood as the state of being free within society fr ...

, succeeding

Shami Chakrabarti Sharmishta "Shami" Chakrabarti, Baroness Chakrabarti, (born 16 June 1969) is a British politician, barrister, and human rights activist. A member of the Labour Party, she served as the director of Liberty, a major advocacy group which promote ...

Early life

Spurrier was educated at Godolphin and Latymer School in London, and then at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where she graduated with a BA (Hons) in history. She took a law conversion course at

City University London City, University of London, is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, and a member institution of the federal University of London. It was founded in 1894 as the Northampton Institute, and became a university when The City Univ ...

, and then the bar professional training course at

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Career

Before joining Liberty, Spurrier worked as a barrister at

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, of which she remains an associate tenant. She took up her new post at the end of May 2016. In July 2018, Spurrier was awarded the ''Hero Award'' at the 20th Annual ISPA Awards by the ISPA Council for challenging the Investigatory Powers Act in the High Court.

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Martha Spurrier
on Liberty's official website
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