Director
Roger Smith
is a solicitor and has been director of JUSTICE since November 2001. He has been director of legal education and training at the Law Society; director of the Legal Action Group; solicitor to the Child Poverty Action Group and director of West Hampstead Community Law Centre. He is an honorary professor at the University of Kent and a visiting professor at London South Bank University.

Human Rights Policy Director
Eric Metcalfe
is director of human rights policy. Educated in New Zealand, Canada and the UK, he completed his doctorate in law at the University of Oxford and was called to the Bar in 1999. Following pupillage at 39 Essex Street, he was a lawyer in the immigration and judicial review team of the Treasury Solicitors Department before joining JUSTICE in January 2003.

Senior Legal Officer (Criminal Justice)
Sally Ireland
is Senior Legal Officer (Criminal Justice). Before joining JUSTICE, she practised at the (then) Chambers of Peter Rook QC, 18 Red Lion Court. She holds an LLM in Human Rights Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science. In addition to her role at JUSTICE she is the current Deputy Chair of the Standing Committee for Youth Justice, and an editorial board member of the Journal of Criminal Law.

Head of Finance and Administration
Liz Pepler
is Head of Finance and Administration and joined JUSTICE in June 2005. Liz has managed the finance and administration for a number of voluntary organisations in the UK and overseas and is currently completing an MSC in Charity Financial Management and Accounting. Liz is also the treasurer for a small human rights organisation based in south London.

Director of Promotion
Sam Watson
is Director of Promotion, working Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. He joined JUSTICE in 2003 having been Marketing Manager at Legal Action Group for five years. Prior to that he worked at Doughty Street Chambers, Liberty and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

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