One of Mr Bhatt's first actions against the police was winning £425,000 damages from South Yorkshire police for assault, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution on behalf of 39 miners during the 1984-85 miner's strike.
Bhatt's career: Fighting injustice Miners' strike Won £425,000 damages from South Yorkshire police in a civil case for assault, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution on behalf of 39 miners at Orgreave.
However, recognising the right of states to protect their national security interests, the Chamber ordered protective measures designed to match those sought by the Prosecution on behalf of the government.
She truculently tried to testify, as a prosecution witness, on behalf of the defendant: "you might as well prosecute every bachelor in London".
The new appeal by the Crown Prosecution Service, on behalf of Spain, against a High Court ruling that former heads of state are immune from prosecution is expected to be chaired by Lord Browne-WiLordson.
Dobson, Luke Knight and Neil Acourt were brought to trial in 1996 as the result of a misguided private prosecution initiated on behalf of the Lawrence family.
On Monday, a new panel of seven law lords will rehear the appeal by the Crown Prosecution Service, on behalf of the Spanish authorities, against the High Court's October 28 ruling that Gen Pinochet was immune from arrest and extradition.
Amnesty backed arguments by the Crown Prosecution Service, on behalf of the Spanish authorities who are seeking to extradite the general, that he should not be protected by sovereign immunity.
In England and Wales, the Crown Prosecution Service acts on behalf of the US in taking the case through the courts.
When that prosecution was successful (Hitson was incarcerated for a year), other counties followed suit, making Alabama the national capital for prosecuting women on behalf of their newborn children.
"In the light of the announcement by the home secretary, Mark Ellison QC and Operation Herne on March 6th, we plan to renew those representations and, in the absence of the co-operation of the Crown Prosecution Service, start appeals on behalf of our clients".
