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Revision as of 00:16, 20 October 2005
Cleaning up this article
This article appeared as (yet another) toss-off from the Guantanamo Bay crowd.
I suggest we vamp up like we did for the Clive Stafford Smith article. Gareth is an amazing woman and she clearly deserves a better article.
Links and online profiles of Gareth Peirce
She was born Jean Gareth Peirce, but dropped her first name, btw.
Here are some online resources that might help
- speech on Samar and Jawad
- Portrayed by Emma Thomson in In the Name of the Father
- Telegraph article -- also awarded a CBE in the New Year's Honours List of 1999 for "services to justice" and educated at Cheltenham Ladies College and Oxford University.
- BBC Profile of Peirce
- LEX profile of radical lawyers
- The following are links to her firm, Birnberg, Peirce & Partners
- Press Statement by Birnberg Peirce (November 8, 2005)
- Firm Profile and Chambers Ranking
- Gareth Peirce appears to be somewhat concerned not to let personal information about her appear and rarely co-operates with press profiles, making it more difficult to get information. However it is possible to find more when I can get to my library. Firstly her Oxford education must have been at one of five colleges (Lady Margaret Hall, Somerville, St. Hugh's, St. Hilda's or St. Anne's) as they were the only ones who admitted women undergraduates at the time. The Oxford list of members will identify which, and give us a clue as to birthdate as people normally go up to Oxford at the age of 18. Her life of 'interesting cases' is also well documented in newspapers and there are references in books about the Guildford Four and Birmingham Six, etc. She also supported striking miners in 1984-85. David | Talk 23:12, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks Dbiv! According to the Telegraph, Cheltenham Ladies College and Oxford University;
Also, she spent time in the US in the 1960s working as a journalist covering the civil rights movement-Martin Luther King. The BBC profile says, Returning to the UK (in the 1970's) she took a postgraduate course at the London School of Economics before being recruited as a solicitor by the radical law firm run by Benedict Birnberg. She lives lives in an end-of-terrace Victorian cottage in a leafy cul-de-sac in Kentish Town
- From The Guardian
Lives Kentish Town, north London, with American husband, Bill. They have two adult sons
Education Cheltenham Ladies' College; Oxford University; postgraduate course at London School of Economics
Career Worked as a journalist in the US in the 1960s, covering Martin Luther King's civil rights campaigns
In 1974 was recruited as a trainee solicitor by the radical law firm run by Benedict Birnberg. Now a senior partner at the firm, Birnberg Peirce & Partners
- Clients -- besides the Gurantanamo folks, there's former MI5 operative, David Shayler, Irish folks - the Guildford Four, the Birmingham Six, Judith Ward, Frank Johnson.
Thank yoU! Joaquin Murietta 00:15, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
It's coming along!
Thanks, DBIV, it is starting to shape up. Joaquin Murietta 00:16, 20 October 2005 (UTC)