Litigant-in-Person

A Litigant-in-Person (LiP) is a core participant in the Undercover Policing Inquiry who has chosen to represent themselves. 

This gives them the ability to personally make opening and closing statements and to participate directly in some of the discussions around legal points in the Non-State Core Participants’ Coordinating Group of Recognised Legal Representatives.

Currently, there are five such individuals: Dave Morris, Helen Steel and Donal O’Driscoll (originally with Hickman & Rose), who were joined in August 2024 by Kate Wilson (previously with Birnbeg Peirce) and Ben Leamy (previously with Hodge Jones & Allen). 

All are non-state core participants, though Dave Morris and Helen Steel are also partially represented for their interests in London Greenpeace by Mike Schwarz of Hodge Jones & Allen.

Helen Steel is also represented in part by Birnberg Peirce in light of her designation in Category H (individuals deceived into relationships with undercovers).

Among police officers, EN34 'Lynn Watson' EN34 'Lynn Watson' EN34 ‘Lynn Watson’ was the assumed identity of an undercover police officer who infiltrated activist groups, mainly in the northern English city of Leeds, between the years of 2002 and 2008. Before moving to Leeds in 2004, Lynn was deployed briefly to investigate a woodland preservation protest campaign in East Sussex in 2002. The following year she infiltrated anti-nuclear groups at Aldermaston in Berkshire. In Leeds, she spied upon a broad range of campaigns including the Climate Camp movement and Dissent!, which was coordinating protest and direct action against the UK-hosted 2005 G8 summit.  and HN82 'Nicholas Green' HN82 'Nicholas Green' HN82 'Nicholas Green' was an SDS undercover who infiltrated Socialist Workers Party (North and West London) and Red Action between 1982 to 1986. He is deceased.  are listed by the Inquiry (September 2024) as having core participant status, but as being unrepresented by any legal firms, so probably should be categorised as Litigants-in-Person. HN5 John Dines 'John Barker' HN5 John Dines 'John Barker' HN5 John Dines (cover name 'John Barker') was an SDS officer who infiltrated London Greenpeace and the Animal Liberation Front between 1987 and 1991. Dines had a two-year relationship with Helen Steel.  has also withdrawn as a core participant and apparently self-represents in relation to the Inquiry.