The latest in a series of Grand Challenges lectures from the Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences and marking the tenth anniversary of Community Legal Outreach Collaboration Keele (CLOCK).

Abstract

The Community Legal Outreach Collaboration Keele (CLOCK) will reflect upon its 10th anniversary in October, since being established as a response to the significant withdrawal of legal aid under the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO).

CLOCK is a unique and innovative research led project bringing together universities, law firms, barristers chambers, mediation, charitable and court services to educate, assist, monitor and promote access to justice for disadvantaged communities. 

We are delighted and honoured that Keele alumnus, Michael Mansfield KC together with his wife, Yvette Greenway-Mansfield will deliver a lecture "Time for Justice" to help mark this special occasion.

Biography

Michael Mansfield KC, the UK's most prominent and high-profile defence lawyer, and one of Keele’s most famous alumni, studied philosophy under Antony Flew in the 1960s.

In a long and distinguished career, some of Mansfield’s most prominent cases included representing those wrongly convicted of the IRA's Guildford and Birmingham pub bombings, those involved in the Israeli Embassy bombing; Stephen Lawrence's family; Michael Barrymore at the Stuart Lubbock inquest; Barry George at the inquest into the death of Jill Dando; the Bloody Sunday families; Mohamed al-Fayed in the inquest into the deaths of his son Dodi al-Fayed and Diana, Princess of Wales; and the family of Jean Charles de Menezes.

In his biography, Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer, he recalls that ‘at the end of my final year Professor Flew told me, a twinkle in his eye, that I had achieved a first-class grade in philosophy! Well, blow me down! Now it was time to concentrate on my ambition to begin a career in law.’

This lecture will be available free online via Microsoft Teams.  

Please register (by no later than 5.00pm on Friday 21st October) and joining instructions with further information will follow ahead of the lecture. 

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