Jamie Hanley

Jamie Edmund Hanley is an English solicitor and Labour Party politician.
Biography
Hanley went to school in Pudsey, and studied Law at the University of Hull where he graduated in 1995 with LL.B. (Hons). Specialising in trade union law and personal injury, he is currently a Partner at Morrish Solicitors LLP.
Political career
Hanley is a member of Labour’s National Policy Forum, representing all Yorkshire and Humberside Constituency Labour Parties on the NPF and all CLPs on the Joint Policy Committee and is Chairman of the Pudsey Labour Party. He was part of Alan Johnson’s team to support his bid for the Labour Party (UK) deputy leadership election 2007. Johnson’s bid team was the only one not to include any Westminster Parliament veterans, losing to Harriet Harman in the fifth and final round of voting by less than one percent of ballots cast.

Through his position on the NPF, he has championed the rights of sufferers of pleural plaques to compensation, along with other asbestos-related diseases such as pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma victims. In 2005 he was the UK representative accompanying former U.S. President Jimmy Carter to oversee the Palestinian Presidential Elections and in 2008 he led a small team from the Labour Party.
Hanley stood in Pudsey constituency as the Labour Party candidate in the 2010 general election, previously held for Labour by Paul Truswell.

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