Geoffrey Robertson
Geoffrey Robertson QC is a leading human rights lawyer and a UN war-crimes judge. He has been counsel in many notable Old Bailey trials, has defended hundreds of men facing death sentences in the Caribbean, and has won landmark rulings on civil liberty from the highest courts in Britain, Europe and the Commonwealth. He was involved in cases against General Pinochet and Hastings Banda, and in the training of judges who tried Saddam Hussein. His book Crimes against Humanity has been an inspiration for the global justice movement, and he is the author of an acclaimed memoir, The Justice Game, and the textbook Media Law. He is married to Kathy Lette. Mr Robertson is Head of Doughty Street Chambers, a Master of the Middle Temple, a Recorder and visiting professor at Queen Mary College, University of London.
News and Blog
Geoffrey Robertson’s THE STATUTE OF LIBERTY has been shortlisted for the inaugural John Button prize for writing on politics and public policy.
Books by Geoffrey Robertson
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The Statute Of Liberty: How To Give Australians Back Their Rights
by Geoffrey RobertsonGeoffrey Robertson puts forth his case for giving Australians back their rights in his brilliantly argued new book
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Busted!: The 50 Most Overrated Things In History Exposed
by Mark JudderyA hilarious, myth-busting romp through history
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The Tyrannicide Brief
by Geoffrey RobertsonLife and law during the Civil Wars as you have never seen it before - and a passionate argument for the people's right of justice against tyrannical leaders.
