A solicitor who acted for families affected by the 1989 Hillsborough stadium tragedy has been nominated for Liverpool’s highest civic honour.

Liverpool-born Elkan Abrahamson, director and head of major inquests and inquiries at Broudie Jackson Canter, has been nominated for Freedom of the City. His nomination is one of three being considered ahead of a full council meeting today.

Abrahamson represented 20 families during the Hillsborough inquests and supports the campaign for ‘Hillsborough Law’. He is currently working with families as part of the statutory public inquiry into Covid and previously represented people wrongly arrested at the time of the Toxteth riots and families affected by the Birmingham pub and Manchester Arena bombings.

Abrahamson was named Law Society Gazette legal personality of the year in 2013 and honoured for outstanding achievement the following year at the Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards.

Councillor Roy Gladden, Lord Mayor of Liverpool, said ‘it is astonishing the number of lives that Elkan has improved and continues to improve through his enduring commitment to social justice’.

Abrahamson said: ‘I am Liverpool born and bred and am honoured and amazed by this nomination.’