The riveting autobiography from Australia's inimitable Geoffrey Robertson. Funny, personal, and bringing Robertson's fascinating and colourful career up to date following The Justice Game.
Geoffrey Robertson QC has had a distinguished career as a trial
counsel and human rights advocate. He has been a UN war crimes
judge, a counsel in many notable Old Bailey trials, has defended
hundreds of men facing death sentences in the Caribbean, and has
won landmark rulings on civil liberty from the highest courts in
Britain, Europe and the Commonwealth. He is founder and head of
Doughty Street Chambers, a Master of the Middle Temple, and a
visiting professor at the New College of Humanities in London.
His book Crimes Against Humanity has been an inspiration for the
global justice movement, his other books include Freedom, the
Individual and the Law, The Tyrannicide Brief, The Statute of
Liberty, Dreaming Too Loud and the acclaimed memoir The Justice
Game. He has made many television and radio programmes, notably
Geoffrey Robertson's Hypotheticals, and has won a Freedom of
Information award for his writing and broadcasting. 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. In 2018 he was awarded an order
of Australia (AO) for 'his distinguished service to the law and the
legal profession as an international human rights lawyer and
advocate for global civil liberties'.
"If Robin Hood, King Arthur, St George, Florence Nightingale and Oscar Wilde were compressed into one witty, brilliant and compassionate lawyer, they still wouldn't come close to approximating the heroic champion of our laws and liberties that is the great Geoffrey Robertson. What a life and how crackingly well told. When a heart-stoppingly unputdownable comedy thriller turns out to be a truthful account of a real life, you know you're on to a winner." --Stephen Fry
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