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Brooks, the barrister and old school ties

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22 May 2012

Are they really all in this together? When Rebekah Brooks appeared at the Leveson Inquiry 10 days ago, she had at her side hotshot barrister Hugo Keith QC. That is unremarkable in itself except that her barrister hails from Three Raymond Buildings, the chambers headed by Alexander Cameron, the elder brother of the Prime Minister.

The Londoner wondered whether the old school tie has been tugged. Rebekah, the former chief executive of News International, has been charged with perverting the course of justice along with her horse-training husband Charlie Brooks. He and Alexander were exact contemporaries at Eton, while Dave chillaxed three years below them. Brooks has kept up with Alexander. Writing an article for GQ in 2009, he picked out the QC as “the star of our pack”.

“I thought he’d do well in politics but it was to the bar that he went,” wrote Charlie. “He was so young when he took silk, he practically still had his milk teeth.”

It may have been a bit awkward on a number of fronts for Alexander, an expert in criminal law, to represent the wife of his old friend Charlie. However, it is not unusual for a senior barrister to recommend someone else in his chambers if he felt he were unable to take the case.

And young Hugo Keith has one specialism that Alexander Cameron lacks. He does human rights law, something that Rebekah is on record as despising, but may find useful if she uses Keith to defend her against charges of perverting the course of justice.
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