The renowned solicitor specialises in defence work and is a partner at Birnberg/Peirce. She has represented too many victims of miscarriages of justice to list them all. We are delighted that she supports our work.
Peirce prefers to talk about cases and issues, which is fine with us. She represents individuals subjected to rendition and torture, held in prisons in the UK on the basis of secret evidence, and interned in secret prisons abroad under regimes that continue to practice torture. She also represents people claiming to be victims of miscarriages of justice, many of which have subsequently been quashed by the Court of Appeal.
Her clients include the Birmingham Six, Michael O’Brien (Newsagent’s Three), Stephen Miller (Cardiff Five),Gerry Conlon (Guildford Four), Judith Ward, the family of Jean Charles de Menezes, and Moazzam Begg. One of her earliest cases, which tragically resulted in posthumous exoneration, was that of Michael McMahon and John Disher (David Cooper), who were wrongly convicted of the 1969 murder of sub-postmaster Reginald Stephens in Luton. It took over 30 years and six appeals for the wrongful convictions to be quashed. Other clients include Samuel Kulasingham and Premraj Sivalingham (The East Ham or Tamil Two).
In her book Dispatches From the Dark Side: On Torture and the Death of Justice, she looks at the British government’s involvement in torture which, if not accounted for, will destroy much of the moral and legal fabric it claims to be protecting. She also contributed a foreword for Sekar’s book Fitted In: The Cardiff 3 and the Lynette White Inquiry.