The Power In The People - How We Can Change The World

Informationen zum Autor MICHAEL MANSFIELD, KC , was called to the bar in 1967 and became Queens Counsel in 1989. Passionate about civil liberties and overturning miscarriages of justice he represented clients from the Birmingham 6, the Guildford 4 and the Tottenham 3. He has fought for the Orgreave miners and for the families of victims of Bloody Sunday, Hillsborough, the Marchioness, Lockerbie and Grenfell, as well as for the parents of Stephen Lawrence. Following the tragic death of his daughter by suicide in 2015, he and his wife, Yvette, set up the charity SOS to campaign for the provision of mental health support and suicide awareness. He has published several books including his autobiography, Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer (Bloomsbury, 2009). In 2017 Michael celebrated 50 years at the bar, but shows no sign of retiring, in fact he recently launched a podcast Two Heads with fellow barrister Lorna Hackett. He lives with Yvette near Stratford On Avon, Warwickshire. Klappentext The internationally renowned human rights barrister shows us how the power to change the world is in the hands of people, not the people in power. Vorwort The internationally renowned human rights barrister shows us how the power to change the world is in the hands of people, not the people in power. Zusammenfassung The internationally renowned human rights barrister shows us how the power to change the world is in the hands of people, not the people in power.

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Michael Mansfield

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• Authors: Michael Mansfield
• Publisher: Conran Octopus Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.12.2024
• EAN: 9781800961456
• ISBN: 978-1-80096-145-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 196 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Law, Human Rights, Autobiography: general, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Human rights & civil liberties law, LAW / Civil Law, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Lawyers & Judges, Political activism, Assertiveness, motivation & self-esteem, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Common Law, Systems of law: civil codes / civil law, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Autobiography: philosophy and social sciences, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law, Systems of law: common law, Political activism / Political engagement, Civil codes / Civil law