The signatories? Legal grandees, a disbarred activist and a fox killer

THE director of the Good Law Project, which has issued legal proceedings against the Met Police’s handling of Partygate. Maugham, pictured, narrowly avoided prosecution in 019 after admitting he had clubbed a fox to death with a baseball bat.

Tim Crosland, ex-barrister

DIRECTOR of Plan B Earth, a campaign group that aims to bring legal action against governments it decrees are in breach of climate commitments. He is organising the declaration. He was banned from practising as a barrister this year after leaking the Supreme Court’s legal decision on the Heathrow expansion.

Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC

ONE of the UK’s most respected human rights lawyers. He was chair of the British Institute of Human Rights and is a member of the Labour Campaign

for Human Rights.

Prof Leslie Thomas KC

HE specialises in claims against the police and other public bodies and gained recognition for representing 11 families of Hillsborough victims in 014. He said he does not intend to abandon the cab rank rule.