astralwerkor said about 5 years ago or at 10:09PM on Monday, January 1 2007 in books
I was reading this just the other day at the time when Saddam Hussein was excuted and the timing could not have been more perfect, given Robertson criticised the trial as a showcase in his preface to the new edition. I am working my way through the book, and it is very engaging. Robertson is an amazing man.
Yeah, I dunno if amazing is the right term. Big mouthed high noter comes to mind, but what would I know? Just sick of people who speak out against the system, without acknowledging the fact that they're inactivity throughout their lives has added to the problems. SUre, Geoffrey Robertson is a very intelligent man and must clearly have a decent grasp of logic and oration, but what actual things has he done to make a difference?
i'd say writing a great book entitled 'crimes against humanity' is a good start.
eat a dick hams.
a towering intellect, and a towering self-promoter.
he does have a record of human rights law, but he'll use saddam's execution as a marketing point for the new book, f'sure.
i mean whilst he scooted off to england to hang out with germaine and be all high and mighty, he just discarded his responsibility as a citizen of this country to do something before it was too late. I'm sure that he could have made a difference to the state of Australia if he had cared to bother, but no, he just goes and writes a book outlining how everythings screwed. so bfw. just another figjam.
what actual things has he done to make a difference?
Well, it turns out there are such things as stupid questions after all.
Geoffrey Robertson QC:
Geoffrey Robertson QC is founder and head of Doughty Street Chambers. He was recently appointed to the Appeals Chamber of the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone.
He has argued many landmark cases in the European Court of Human Rights, the House of Lords, the Privy Council and Commonwealth courts. He has recently appeared in the Court of Final Appeal for Hong Kong, the Supreme Court of Malaysia, the Fiji Court of Appeal, the High Court of Australia and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
He has appeared before Old Bailey juries in some of the most celebrated trials including Oz, Gay News, The ABC Trial, "the Romans in Britain", Randle & Pottle, the Brighton bombing, and Dessie Ellis, and at Appellate level in leading cases on abuse of process and identification and expert evidence. He led for the Defence in the Matrix Churchill trial and for The Guardian in the Hamilton / Greer libel action.
He has conducted a number of missions on behalf of Amnesty International to South Africa and Vietnam, and led the 1992 Bar Council/ Law Society Human Rights mission to Malawi. In 1990 he served as counsel to the Royal Commission investigating traffick in arms and mercenaries to the Columbian drugs cartels. He was made a Bencher of the Middle Temple in 1997.
He is the author of Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice (2nd edition, 2002); Media Law (with Andrew Nicol QC, 4th edition, 2001); Freedom, the Individual and the Law (8th edition, 1993); and a memoir, The Justice Game (1999). His new book, The Tyrannicide Brief, was published by Random House in October 2005. It tells the dramatic story of how Cromwell's lawyers challenged the monarchy.
Geoffrey Robertson's other published works include Reluctant Judas (1976), Obscenity (1979), People Against the Press (1983), Does Dracula Have Aids? (1989) and Geoffrey Robertson's Hypotheticals. His play, The Trials of Oz, won a BAFTA "Best Play" nomination for 1991, and he was the recipient of a 1993 Freedom of Information Award.
He is a Recorder, a Master of the Middle Temple, Council Member of Justice, Trustee of the Capital Cases Trust and a Visiting Professor in Human Rights Law at Birkbeck College and Queen Mary College, University of London.
whoop dee doo. he's still gonna die having achieved nothing.
whoop dee doo. he's still gonna die having achieved nothing.
Dickhead.
i mean anyone who spends their whole life in the legal system thinking that they're actually gonna make some kind of difference either has to have rocks in their head, or else uses too much cocaine.
Ah bugger it, there's really no point arguing with you. Good night.
hahaha! you lose. lucky you're not a lawyer, hey?!
he is not a dickhead either, hence his decision not to converse with such people.
On ABC now.
I like how within the space of a few minutes in his interview he claimed to have singlehandedly brought an end to capital punishment in the carribean and was responsible for the Tories being voted out then mentioned his relationship with Nigella Lawson. Clever but egomaniacal.
I'm bringing this thread back to life...
Robetson is one of my heroes, even if i don't always agree with what he does...
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/nato-has-lawful-right-to-stop-gaddafi-if-security-council-fails-to-act-20110306-1bjcb.html