Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers
Haldane Society banner, September 2013 | |
| Formation | 1930 |
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| Headquarters | London, England |
Official language | English |
President | Michael Mansfield |
Chair | Declan Owens and Hannah Webb |
| Affiliations | Politically independent |
| Website | haldane |
The Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers is a socialist and legal campaigning organisation in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1930 to provide legal support to the then Labour government. The Society was named after Viscount Haldane (1856–1928), a Liberal and subsequently Labour Party politician, who had been Lord Chancellor in H. H. Asquith's government from 1912 to 1915 and subsequently in 1924 during the first ever Labour administration.
The Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers is now politically independent, unlike the Society of Labour Lawyers, which is affiliated to the Labour Party, and was formed after the Haldane Society split in 1949 over the question of membership for members of the Communist Party.