Advocacy “The Trial Advocate’s Playbook”

Michael Mansfield QC

December 23, 2021 Craig MacKenzie Season 2 Episode 1
Advocacy “The Trial Advocate’s Playbook”
Michael Mansfield QC
Show Notes

The Trial Advocate’s Playbook, ‘An eloquence of mentors’

In this episode Craig MacKenzie interviews Michael Mansfield QC.  A living legend of the legal world, Michael has been involved in some of the most important cases to go through the Courts.  He shares his insights and tips and talks about some of his recent work, including his role in The Peoples COVID Inquiry.  If you enjoy listening to this episode and want more information about the inquiry, please check out keepournhspublic.com.   The report can be downloaded from peoplescovidinquiry.com

Michael Mansfield QC is the head of Nexus Chambers and was recently described as “The king of human rights work” by The Legal 500. 



As well as representing those wrongly convicted of the IRA’s Gilford and Birmingham pub bombings, He represented: the Angry Brigade; Dolours and Marian Price; Brian Keenan; the Orgreave miners; Mahmood Hussein Mattan, Ruth Ellis and James Hanratty (in posthumous appeals); those involved in the Israeli Embassy bombing; Frank Crichlow, owner of the Mangrove restaurant; Stephen Lawrence's family; Michael Barrymore at the Stuart Lubbock inquest; Barry George at the inquest into the death of Jill Dando; the gangster Kenneth Noye; the Bloody Sunday families ; Arthur Scargill; Angela Cannings; Fatmir Limaj, a Kosovo-Albanian leader prosecuted in the Hague; Mohamed al-Fayed in the inquest into the deaths of his son Dodi al-Fayed and Diana, Princess of Wales; and also the families of Jean Charles de Menezes and Mark Duggan. 

In March 2019 Mansfield was engaged by the family of footballer Emiliano Sala to represent their interests in the dispute over his death.Wikipedia.org”

“His current commitments include , The Grenfell Tower Inquiry, M62 Shooting of Yassar Yaqub Inquest, Colin Norris Referral by CCRC, Dawn Sturgess Inquest, Emilliano Sala Inquest, 5G Legal Challenge, SOS, Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse (IICSA).nexus chambers.com”