1. Harriet Wistrich was Liberty's Human Rights Lawyer of the Year in 2014.
11 Facts About Harriet Wistrich
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Harriet Wistrich has written for The Guardian and is the editor, with her partner Julie Bindel, of The Map of My Life: The Story of Emma Humphreys.
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Harriet Wistrich had been a Labour councillor and chair of the Greater London Council Film Viewing Board in the 1970s.
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Harriet Wistrich served as director of the European Movement from 1966 and was appointed CBE.
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Harriet Wistrich was the author of The United States of Europe.
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Harriet Wistrich's upbringing notwithstanding, Daniel moved to Israel when he was 23 and became a Hasidic Jew.
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Harriet Wistrich went to Hampstead School and City of East London College, then Oxford University, where she became a feminist, came out as a lesbian, and graduated with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
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Harriet Wistrich took a two-year law conversion course and completed her legal practice course in 1995 at the University of Westminster in London.
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Harriet Wistrich told a press conference that the case had been "a miscarriage of justice on a par with that of the Guildford Four and Judith Ward".
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Harriet Wistrich has represented several women in successful appeals against murder convictions, including Stacey Hyde, Christine Devaney, Diane Butler, and Kirsty Scamp, and other litigants in high-profile cases.
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Harriet Wistrich represented the family of Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot and killed by police in London in July 2005.