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Name: Michael Mansfield
Field:
Barrister
Productions:
An Audience With Michael Mansfield
Biography: Michael Mansfield QC was born in 1941. Called to the Bar in 1967, he established his own Chambers, Tooks Court in 1984 and became Queen’s Counsel in 1989. Michael has represented defendants in criminal trials, appeals and inquiries in some of the most controversial legal cases the country has seen - particularly where issues of Civil Liberty have arisen. Amongst the most recent are: Barry George, accused of killing TV presenter Jill Dando; the family of Stephen Lawrence both in the private prosecution for murder and the Public Inquiry and the families of victims at the on-going Bloody Sunday Inquiry in Derry and London
He also chaired an Inquiry into the “Shoot to Kill” policy in the North of Ireland at Cullyhanna in 1991.
Michael’s past clients include: the Orgreave miners who were unjustly accused of riot during the miner’s strike in 1984; the Birmingham Six, who were released in 1991, nearly sixteen years after being wrongly convicted; James Hanratty, hanged in 1962 for murder; ‘spy’ Michael Bettany; the Bradford 12 and the Newham 7 against the National Front; Judith Ward; Iraqi dissidents fleeing Saddam Hussein; Turkish and Kurdish exiles; Palestinians charged with the Israeli Embassy bombing in London and Angela Cannings, the so-called cot death mother.
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