Peirce, Gareth

LC control no.	no2011010668
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Peirce, Gareth *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	Great Britain United States
Located	Kentish Town (London, England)
Birth date	1940
Place of birth	Cheltenham (England)
Field of activity	Law Human rights
Affiliation	Birnberg Peirce and Partners JAIL
Profession or occupation	Lawyers Civil rights lawyers Human rights workers Journalists
Found in	Dispatches from the dark side, 2010: t.p. (Gareth Peirce) bk. jkt. (human rights lawyer) Wikipedia, viewed November 25, 2015 (Gareth Peirce (born 1940) is a British solicitor and human rights activist. She is best known for her work and advocacy in high-profile cases involving allegations of human rights injustices. She was born Jean Margaret Webb in Cheltenham. She changed her name from Jean to "Gareth" during her formative years. She was educated at the Cheltenham Ladies' College, the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics. She lives in Kentish Town, North London, with her husband, Mellen Chamberlain "Bill" Peirce. In the 1960s, she worked as a journalist in the United States, following the campaign of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Married, she returned to Britain in 1970 with her husband and elder son and undertook her postgraduate law degree at the London School of Economics. In 1974, she joined the firm of the radical solicitor Benedict Birnberg as a trainee, being admitted to the Roll of Solicitors on 15 December 1978. Following Birnberg's retirement in 1999, she continued to work as a senior partner of Birnberg Peirce and Partners. In the mid-1970s, she supported specific campaigns for legal reforms of police procedures that permitted the prosecution and conviction of persons based solely on identification evidence. Individual cases then very much in the news led to the establishment of Justice Against the Identification Laws (JAIL), an organisation which Gareth Peirce supports.)
Associated language	eng