Michael Mansfield (born October 12, 1941) is a British lawyer. A "radical republican, vegetarian, socialist and self-deprecating" lawyer, he has participated in leading and controversial court cases and examinations involving defendants IRA bombers, Birmingham Six, Bloody Sunday events, the Hillsborough disaster and the deaths of Jean Charles de Menezes and Dodi Al-Fayed and the McLibel case.
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He grew up north of Finchley, North London, and attended Holmewood Preparatory School (Woodside Park) before going to Highgate School and University of Keele, where he graduated with a B.A. (Hons) in history and philosophy, before becoming Secretary of Keele Student Union.
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Careers
Mansfield was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1967, to Queen's Counsel in 1989 and was voted Bencher of Gray's Inn in 2007.
He is currently the President of Haldane Socialist Lawyer, and a Professor in Law at City University. Mansfield is a regular after dinner and a keynote speaker.
Important case
In addition to representing those found guilty of the bombing of the IRA's Guildford and Birmingham pubs, Mansfield has represented: Angry Brigade; Price brothers; Brian Keenan; Orgreave miners; Mahmood Hussein Mattan, Ruth Ellis and James Hanratty (in posthumous); those involved in the Israeli Embassy bombing; Stephen Lawrence's family; Michael Barrymore in the investigation of Stuart Lubbock; Barry George on examination of the death of Jill Dando; gangster Kenneth Noye; Bloody Sunday families; Arthur Scargill; Angela Cannings; Fatmir Limaj, a Kosovo-Albanian leader charged in The Hague; Mohamed al-Fayed in the investigation of the death of his son, Dodi al-Fayed and Diana, Princess of Wales; and the families of Jean Charles de Menezes and Mark Duggan. He has been called a "socialist champagne" even though he says that 95 percent of his work comes from legal aid.
Lockerbie bombing
Warning against relying on forensic science to secure confidence, Michael Mansfield at BBC Scotland's Frontline Scotland Silence over Lockerbie TV program, broadcast on October 14, 1997, said he wanted to make just one point :
Forensic science has not changed. They are not written in stone tablets, and the biggest mistake anyone can make - the public, the expert or anyone else - is to believe that forensic science is somehow beyond reproach: no! The greatest miscarriage of justice in the United Kingdom, many of them from cases where forensic science has been proved wrong. And when a forensic scientist or anyone says: 'I'm sure this is married to it' I'm worried.
Personal life
Mansfield has been married twice, to Melian Bordes for 19 years, with whom he has five children (Jonathan, Anna, Louise, Leo and Kieran), and for thirty years to the artist/filmmaker Yvette Vanson, from whom he split up in the year 2014 and with whom he has a son (Fred). Her daughter, Anna, died of suicide in May 2015.
Charity work
Mansfield is the patron of the animal welfare organization "Viva!" (International Vegetarian Voice for Animals) and refers to animal production as "genocide". He is also a patron of the Hastings Advice and Representation Center, a charity providing free welfare advice and representation to local residents in Hastings, East Sussex and the surrounding area.
The Silence Of Suicide
After his daughter committed suicide, Mansfield founded The Silence Of Suicide, a suicide vigilance charity.
See also
- Trial observer mission Lockerbie Hans KÃÆ'¶chler
- The bombing trial 103 Pan Am Flight
- Chancellor of Cambridge University, 2011
References
Further reading
- Who's Who , 2006
- Michael Mansfield, Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer . London, Bloomsbury. 2009. ISBNÃ, 978-0-7475-7654-9
External links
- Chambers Mansfield Chambers Michael Mansfield
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