>By the 1980s various protest movements gained traction... Between March 1995 and February 2005 the longest-running court trial in British history, dubbed ‘McLibel’, saw McDonald’s bring a claim of defamation against protesters associated with Greenpeace for their distribution of anti-McDonald’s leaflets outside businesses.
In particular this part of the wiki article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLibel?useskin=vector#Libel_c...
>Steel and Morris chose to defend the case. The two were denied legal aid, as was policy for libel cases, despite having limited income. Thus, they had to represent themselves, though they received significant pro bono assistance, including from Keir Starmer.
Seems everything is very connected, never would of guess just a reference deep I'd find him there.