Shami Chakrabarti In November 2015, the settlement was announced of a High Court libel case brought by Martin Hemming, formerly the Legal Adviser to the Ministry of Defence, concerning false allegations made by Chakrabarti. The publishers apologised for the "hurt and distress caused" by the allegations, confirmed they were "without foundation", and agreed to pay Hemming damages and legal costs. Shami Chakrabarti Sharmishta Chakrabarti, Baroness Chakrabarti, (born 16 June 1969), commonly known as Shami Chakrabarti, is a British Labour Party politician and member of the House of Lords. She is a barrister, and was the director of Liberty, an advocacy group which
Shami Chakrabarti Baroness Chakrabarti, of Kennington in the London Borough of Lambeth. She was appointed in October 2016 to the Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn as Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales. Chakrabarti has been a member of at least two groups which exist to promote Anglo-American political and military co-operation. She is an alumna of the British-American Project, and has been a governor of the Ditchley Foundation. Chakrabati was married to Martyn Hopper, a litigation lawyer, from 1995 until they divorced in 2014. She opposes grammar schools on the grounds of social divisiveness and because she says they enforce segregation.