Talking to Myself: Memoirs of a Human Rights Activist - Hardcover

Lester, Anthony

 
9781785904509: Talking to Myself: Memoirs of a Human Rights Activist
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1785904507 ISBN 13: 9781785904509
Verlag: Durnell Marston, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

'I have been a campaigner in many human rights causes, some successful, some less so, some failed. My mother once said, 'Anthony, we had such a fine system until you ruined it!' I hope she was wrong.' Over the course of his illustrious, pioneering and sometimes controversial career, Anthony Lester transformed Britain's approach to human rights. As a brave and creative lawyer, and as a peer in the House of Lords, he worked tirelessly to combat abuses of public power and to introduce new legal frameworks for human rights, equality and free speech. In these honest and remarkable personal memoirs, which map the history of human rights in this country over the past half-century, Anthony Lester explores the social conditions and interior circumstances that shaped his life as a relentless and passionate campaigner for equality and justice.

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ANTHONY LESTER , Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC, was an eminent human rights lawyer and activist. He argued leading cases on free speech and equality in European, Commonwealth and British courts and developed the burgeoning field of public law. He campaigned for thirty years for the Human Rights Act 1998. As special adviser to Roy Jenkins, he helped devise the Sex Discrimination and Race Relations Acts. His activities in the Lords led to legislation on civil partnership, forced marriage, equality and defamation reform. He worked with human rights NGOs at home and overseas and was a true internationalist. Anthony was married to Katya and they had two children, Gideon and Maya, and three grandchildren, Benjamin, Alice and Rose. He died in 2020.

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Verlag
Durnell Marston
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1785904507
ISBN 13 
9781785904509
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
352
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