PROFILE: Michael Mansfield

Michael Mansfield QC

Called to the Bar in 1967, Michael Mansfield QC established Tooks Court Chambers in 1984 and took silk in 1989. He has written extensively in all major broadsheets and law journals and he has appeared in several documentaries. He is the president of Amicus, Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers and National Civil Rights Movement. He fully supports the work of the Fitted-In Project.

RECENT POSTS BY Michael Mansfield

The state has a responsibility to enshrine the principles of justice in legislation as well as establishing and maintaining the means of its implementation. This government and its predecessors have more…

There was a time when the sight of an envelope addressed to me in green ink, as though written studiously along a ruler’s edge, with each letter truncated in line, more…

There was a time when the sight of an envelope addressed to me in green ink, as though written studiously along a ruler’s edge, with each letter truncated in line, more…