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Rather His Own Man Geoffrey Robertson, QC

Rather His Own Man By Geoffrey Robertson, QC

Rather His Own Man by Geoffrey Robertson, QC


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Summary

Compelling memoir of the UK's leading human rights lawyer. Both funny and personal, it follows on from his best selling memoir The Justice Game, bringing Robertson's fascinating and colourful career up to date.

Rather His Own Man Summary

Rather His Own Man: In Court with Tyrants, Tarts and Troublemakers by Geoffrey Robertson, QC

Geoffrey Robertson led students in the '60s to demand an end to racism and censorship. He went on to become a top human rights advocate, saving the lives of many death-row inmates, freeing dissidents and taking on tyrants in a career marked by courage, determination and a fierce independence. In this witty, honest and sometimes irreverent memoir, he recalls battles on behalf of George Harrison and Julian Assange, Salman Rushdie and Vaclav Havel, Mike Tyson and the Sex Pistols, and battles against General Pinochet, Lee Kuan Yew and Mrs Thatcher (the true story of Spycatcher is told for the first time). Interspersed with these forensic fireworks is the story of a pimply schoolboy from a state comprehensive, inspired by a banned book to become a barrister at the Old Bailey and who went on to found the UK's leading human rights practice (Doughty Street Chambers) and to defend troublemakers throughout the world. Rather His Own Man captures the drama of the trial, the thrill of victory and the feeling of `courtus interruptus' when a big case settles. Its cast of characters includes Princess Diana, Pee-Wee Herman, Dame Edna, the Queen and Rupert - the bear and the media mogul. It's a read that is both exhilarating and erudite - and very funny.

About Geoffrey Robertson, QC

Geoffrey Robertson QC is founder and head of Doughty Street Chambers, the UK's leading human rights legal practice. A barrister, academic, author and broadcaster, Robertson is the author of celebrated books including The Justice Game, Stephen Ward Was Innocent, OK and An Inconvenient Genocide. In 2011 he received the New York State Bar Association's Award for `Distinction in International Law and Affairs', and was Australian Humanitarian of the Year in 2014.

Additional information

GOR009972783
9781785904936
1785904930
Rather His Own Man: In Court with Tyrants, Tarts and Troublemakers by Geoffrey Robertson, QC
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Biteback Publishing
20190613
496
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