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John Wadham (born 24 January 1952) is a solicitor and General Counsel at the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Prior to this he was the Deputy Chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission and before that the Director of Liberty, the UK's best known human rights pressure group.

John Wadham was educated at the London School of Economics, Surrey University and the College of Law. He worked for a number of law centres in South London before becoming an articled clerk to Gareth Peirce. He started work in 1990 as a Legal Officer for Liberty, became Director of law and was finally appointed as Director of Liberty in 1995. In 2003 he was appointed as Deputy Chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission by the Home Secretary David Blunkett and was succeeded as Director at Liberty by Shami Chakabarty.

He took up the post as head of the Legal Department at the Equality and Human Rights Commission in 2007.

He is the lead author of the Oxford University Press Guides to the Human Rights Act (six editions), the Freedom of Information Act (four editions), the Identity Cards Act and the Equality Act (two editions). He is an honorary lecturer at Leicester University, Kent University and Auckland University (New Zealand).

He represented Michael Randle and Patrick Pottle, David Shayler , Richard Tomlinson , Liberty in its challenge to the post 9/11 detentions Katherine Gunn , and the Equality and Human Rights Commission against the British National Party