Gareth Peirce

Jean Gareth Peirce is a British lawyer who gained worldwide prominence particularly through its commitment to human rights violations. Peirce was among other things, counsel for the Guildford Four, the Maguire Seven and the Birmingham Six in their appeal and Moazzam Begg from, an inmate at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay.

Life and career

Peirce, whose birth name and birth are not known due to their reluctance to engage with the media, first attended the Cheltenham Ladies' College and the University of Oxford. After graduating, she worked as a journalist in the U.S., where she accompanied the campaign of Martin Luther King. She later returned to London, where she received a law degree from the London School of Economics and graduated successfully. She then worked in the office of human rights lawyer Benedict Birnberg.

Mid-70s, supported Peirce various campaigns that called for a reform of laws and police regulations, which allowed it to pursue accused solely on the basis of Zeugenidentifzierungen criminal and condemn. Media attention attracted especially the George Davis Is Innocent Campaign and supported by Peirce organization Justice Against the Identification Laws ( JAIL ). During her work as a lawyer Peirce represented, among others, Judith Ward, who in 1974 falsely accused of an alleged connection to the IRA bombings, the and the Maguire Seven, who were long-standing innocently imprisoned for the bombings in Guildford Guildford Four and the innocent detainees in Guantanamo Moazzam Begg British.

Currently, Peirce is a senior partner in the law firm Birnberg Peirce and Partners.

Honors and Publications

Gareth Peirce was appointed CBE in 1999, but shortly afterwards asked to be allowed to take the order again. Your involvement in the case of the Guildford Four was addressed centrally in the name of the father in the film adaptation of the case with the title. The movie role of Gareth Peirce took Emma Thompson. Pierce published in 2010 a collection of essays under the title Dispatches from the Dark Side: On Torture and the Death of Justice. In conjunction with this release they recently criticized the handling of Muslim prisoners.

" We have lost our way in this country. We have Entered a new dark age of injustice and it is frightening did we are overwhelmed by it. I know I am Representing innocent people; innocent people who knowthat a jury They face will Inevitably be predisposed to find them guilty. " (German: "We have lost our way in this country, we have entered a new dark age of injustice and it is scary that we are overwhelmed by it I know that I represent innocent people, innocent people who know that they. . will face a jury will find guilty. "