11 Facts About Gareth Peirce

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Gareth Peirce has worked on a number of high-profile cases involving allegations of human rights injustices.

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Gareth Peirce changed her name from Jean to Gareth during her formative years but never divulged to anyone the reason for doing so.

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Gareth Peirce was educated at the Cheltenham Ladies' College, the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics.

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Gareth Peirce married, returned to Britain in 1970 with her husband and elder son and undertook her postgraduate law degree at the London School of Economics.

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Gareth Peirce's younger son was born in London after her permanent return to England.

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Gareth Peirce was among the doctors and lawyers who were spied on by UC Global while visiting Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy.

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Gareth Peirce has reportedly never watched the film and stated in 1995 that she was "an extremely unimportant participant in the story" but was "given a seemingly important status".

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Gareth Peirce was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1999 New Year Honours for services to justice, but later wrote to Downing Street asking for it to be withdrawn and tendering an apology for any misunderstanding.

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Sir Ludovic Kennedy, a campaigner against miscarriages of justice, dedicated a book to Gareth Peirce, calling her "the doyenne of British defence lawyers" who "refuses to be defeated in any case no matter how unfavourable it looks".

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Gareth Peirce was one of the initial eight individuals inducted in March 2007 into Justice Denied magazine's Hall of Honor for her lifetime achievement in aiding the wrongly convicted.

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Gareth Peirce has been described as a very private person who shuns the limelight and refuses media interviews.