Archive of Gareth Peirce

• The Big Issue talks to Gareth Peirce: "One of the most feared and respected lawyers in the country"

  The Big Issue in Scotland talks to Gareth Peirce about her new book Dispatches from the Dark Side and her tireless work representing people from a changing suspect community, including the Birmingham Six, the Guildford Four, Moazzam Begg and Guantanamo Bay detainees today. Benedict Birnberg, with whom she now runs a London practice, says Peirce "transformed the criminal justice scene in this country almost single-handedly."

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  By Sarah Shin / 22 November 2010 / post comment

• Gareth Peirce's Dispatches from the Dark Side in the Observer and Guardian

  Gareth Peirce's Dispatches from the Dark Side: On Torture and the Death of Justice appeared in the Guardian and Observer this weekend. 

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  By Sarah Shin / 15 November 2010 / post comment

• Watch Gareth Peirce discuss Dispatches from the Dark Side at the Frontline Club

  Watch Gareth Peirce discussing her work and Dispatches from the Dark Side: On Torture and the Death of Justice with Guardian legal affairs correspondent Afua Hirsch at the Frontline Club in London.

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  By Sarah Shin / 02 November 2010 / 1 comment

• Victoria Brittain reviews Dispatches from the Dark Side

  Victoria Brittain reviews Dispatches from the Dark Side for the Institute of Race Relations website.

  Reading her litany of horror, delivered in cool legal language, any government lawyer, or MP, or official in the Ministry of Justice, might feel the need to resign in order to keep their self-respect.

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  By Sarah Shin / 29 October 2010 / post comment

• Gareth Peirce discusses Dispatches from the Dark Side on BBC Radio 4’s “Woman's Hour”

  Gareth Peirce spoke about Dispatches from the Dark Side on BBC Radio 4's "Woman's Hour."

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  By Sarah Shin / 14 October 2010 / post comment

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