University of Oxford and London School of Economics
Occupation
Solicitor
Spouse
Chamberlain Peirce
Children
2
Gareth Peirce (born Jean Margaret Webb; March 1940) is a British solicitor and human rights activist. She has worked on a number of high-profile cases involving allegations of human rights injustices. Her work with Gerry Conlon and the Guildford Four – wrongly convicted of bombings carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army – was chronicled in the film In the Name of the Father (1993), in which she was portrayed by Emma Thompson.[1][2]
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solicitor was by now GarethPeirce—who had represented the Guildford Four and Birmingham Six—and his barrister Michael Mansfield. Peirce applied for leave...
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Banks joined Labour politician Tony Benn, George Galloway, Bashir Maan, GarethPeirce, and others to argue that such a prosecution was detrimental to free...
represented Paul Hill, and others were represented by human rights solicitor GarethPeirce. The appeal hearing had been adjourned to January 1990 at the request...
persuaded renowned solicitor GarethPeirce to take on the case and handle the renewed application to appeal, and Peirce instructed Michael Mansfield QC...
animal testing). John Lennon, musician (returned MBE insignia in 1969) GarethPeirce, solicitor (gazetted CBE in 1999, but later she returned its insignia...
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