Miranda Agnes Jayne Grell was born on June 1978 and is a barrister and former Labour Party councillor for the London Borough of Waltham Forest.
21 Facts About Miranda Grell
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Miranda Grell was the first person to be found guilty of making false statements under the Representation of the People Act 1983, having made false allegations of paedophilia against her political opponent, Barry Smith, during an election campaign.
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Miranda Grell subsequently trained to become a barrister and was called to the Bar in 2014.
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Miranda Grell was born in 1978 to parents from Dominica who had moved to Britain in 1973.
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Miranda Grell says she had no relationship with her father.
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Miranda Grell attended Walthamstow School for Girls, studied European studies with modern languages at the University of Manchester, gaining a first class honours degree, and took a master's degree in industrial relations from the London School of Economics.
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Miranda Grell joined the Labour Party in 1999 having been persuaded to do so by her friend and fellow student Chuka Umunna, who became an MP in 2010.
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Miranda Grell had previously worked as a trainee speech writer for Anna Diamantopoulou.
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Miranda Grell served on the management committee of the pressure group Compass from June 2005 until her resignation from the committee on 30 November 2007.
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Miranda Grell was elected in the May 2006 local elections for the Leyton ward of Waltham Forest London Borough Council.
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Miranda Grell gained the seat when the Liberal Democrats made gains in the borough.
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Witnesses against Miranda Grell included a Labour voter and another Labour candidate for her ward, Nicholas Russell.
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On 24 October 2007, Miranda Grell's supporters launched a campaign to finance her appeal, but it was later reported that the Labour Party would pay her legal costs.
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Miranda Grell's appeal hearing began on 28 November 2007 at Snaresbrook Crown Court before Judge Peter Birts QC and two lay magistrates.
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Miranda Grell vacated her seat and was banned from holding public office for three years.
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Miranda Grell lodged a first application with the Criminal Cases Review Commission in 2009, assisted by Lord Gifford QC.
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Miranda Grell was the 2014 recipient of the Reita Clarke Memorial Award for outstanding achievement, awarded by the Law Centres Network.
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In November 2014, after completing the Bar Professional Training Course at the City University Law School in Gray's Inn London, Miranda Grell was called to the Bar of England and Wales by the Inner Temple.
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Miranda Grell was proposed by former Lord Justice of Appeal Sir Stephen Sedley.
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Miranda Grell was actively involved in the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign in Leyton and Wanstead and nationally, appearing in official campaign videos.
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Miranda Grell appeared as an audience member on the EU Referendum: The Great Debate television programme broadcast on BBC One on 21 June 2016.