2018 Sir Graham Day Lecture on Human Rights: Gareth Peirce

Gareth Peirce is a defence lawyer whose work in the U.K. has exonerated dozens of wrongly convicted men and women. One of them was Gerry Conlon, who was part of the Guildford Four-three men and a woman who were falsely accused of the IRA bombing of a British pub in 1974. Peirce's work led to the acceptance of the need for revolutionary changes in the En…