Gareth Peirce:"We have lost our way in this country. We have entered a new dark age of injustice and it is frightening that we are overwhelmed by it. I know I am representing innocent people; innocent people who know that a jury they face will inevitably be predisposed to find them guilty.""Muslims face 'dark age of injustice'" - The Guardian, 1 April 2004
"Say terrorism and it excuses everything."Profile: Gareth Peirce - (BBC 10.03.2004)
"We should keep all this in mind as we look at the experiences of our new suspect community. Just as Irish men and women, wherever they lived, knew every detail of each injustice as if it had been done to them, long before British men and women were even aware that entire Irish families had been wrongly imprisoned in their country for decades, so Muslim men and women here and across the world are registering the ill-treatment of their community here, and recognising, too, the analogies with the experiences of the Irish. Was it like this for the Irish? - London Review of Books - 10.04.2008
Who Gareth Peirce represents:
Gareth Peirce represents individuals who are or have been the subject of rendition and torture, held in prisons in the UK on the basis of secret evidence, and interned in secret prisons abroad under regimes that continue to practice torture and injustice. Her many clients have included the appeal cases of wrongful convictions, Guildford Four & Birmingham Six which remain among the most grievous miscarriages of justice in British history. She also represented the family of Jean Charles de Menezes and Moazzam Begg who were also the subject of great injustice.
At the moment she is representing several people who have been denied justice in the United Kingdom. In her commitment to demand justice for her clients, she has taken many cases to the European Human Rights Commission after the High Courts in Britain failed to deliver justice. You can watch the summaries of these cases:
Public Hearing 14.12.2010 at 09:00am - Othman v. United Kingdom (No. 8139/09)
Watch Video - 92 Minutes
Hearing at European Court of Human Rights
Public Hearing 21.08.2008 at 09:00am - A. and Others v. the United Kingdom (No. 3455/05)
Watch Video - 109 Minutes
