The British Psychoanalytical Society - 1st Jame MacKeith Memorial Lecture

Speaker : GARETH PEIRCE
 
"IN TIMES OF TROUBLE"

A lecture analysing the true picture of the United Kingdom’s compliance with its domestic and International obligations in respect of the human rights of individuals.

GARETH PEIRCE is a human rights lawyer who has for 30 years represented men and women on the receiving end of the sharpest edge of state power. In many of the cases she worked closely with Dr. James MacKeith; together they explored and developed the interaction of law and medicine, human rights and human behaviour. Those cases included the wrongful convictions of the Guilford 4 and the Birmingham 6 and the phenomena of false confessions; Sara Thornton and the syndrome of the “battered wife”; Guantanamo Bay and the prohibited use of torture and rendition; internment and the effects of indefinite detention upon the detainee.
 
JAMES MACKEITH, OBE, who died in 2007, was an outstanding Forensic Psychiatrist who dedicated himself to human rights. Amongst his numerous achievements was his work on false confessions and more latterly on the psychiatric effects of conditions of foreign nationals interned at Belmarsh without trial. He was medical adviser for the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (1991-2006) and a founder commissioner of the Criminal Cases Review Commission.
 
CHAIR:  DAVID BELL President Elect British Psychoanalytical Society
 
All proceeds from this event will be donated to the Helen Bamber Foundation - caring for victims of human rights violations and the Miscarriages Of Justice Organisation (MOJO) - a human rights organisation set up by Paddy Hill and John McManus who are dedicated to assisting innocent people both in prison and after their release.
 
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