ETHICAL DILEMMAS OF A PUBLIC INTEREST LAWYER

by Richard Meeran - Liberty-JUSTICE Human Rights Lawyer of the Year (2002)

DATE: Wednesday 3rd February 2010

TIME:  5:15 PM
VENUE: King's College, Safra Lecture Theatre (basement), Strand WC2R 2LS

SPEAKER: Richard Meeran has been a partner at London-based public interest firm Leigh Day & Co,since 1991. He has pioneered litigation against British multinationals on behalf of overseas workers.
His cases have included:

• the Cape PLC case for 7,500 South African asbestos miners;

• the Thor Chemical case for 40 South African workers poisoned by mercury.

Presently he acts for a group of indigenous Peruvian torture victims and in a series of test cases for gold miners with silicosis
which are ongoing in the South African courts. These cases have raised some difficult ethical and moral challenges - the topic of his King's Lecture.

THIS EVENT IS FREE, UNTICKETED, AND OPEN TO ALL