Geoffrey Robertson QC has appeared as counsel in many landmark human rights cases. He has handled hundreds of death sentence appeals in the Privy Council and led the defence in the Matrix Churchill trial which exposed the arms to Iraq scandal, and the prosecution in proceedings against Hastings Banda. He defended dissidents detained by Lee Kuan Yew and served as counsel to the Antiguan Royal Commission which exposed the international plot to arm the Medellín cartel. He was the first (and last) advocate permitted to appear in Mozambique's Revolutionary Military Tribunal. In the 1980s he conducted missions to South Africa and Vietnam, and helped to defend the Charter signatories in Prague.
Mr Robertson is Head of Doughty Street Chambers. He is a Recorder and Visiting Professor in Human Rights Law at Birkbeck College. He is an executive member of Justice and a Master of the Middle Temple. His books include Freedom, the Individual and the Law; Media Law; People Against the Press; Does Dracula Have Aids?; and a memoir, The Justice Game, which was published in 1998. He is married to the author Kathy Lette and they live in London with their two young children.
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