International Human Rights Lawyer and founder of Reprieve Clive Stafford Smith will be giving a talk at Dorchester’s Shire Hall.
Clive is the founder of the organisation Reprieve, which provides free legal and investigative support to some of the world’s most vulnerable people: those facing execution, and those victimised by states’ abusive counter-terror policies.
On August 8, from 7.30pm, he will be giving a talk at Shire Hall entitled: “Which is less likely to achieve truth: the American or the British justice system?” Clive will be examining these two justice systems, founded from a common root but grown along different paths since the building of Shire Hall, and will ask: “How far have we come since the Tolpuddle Martyrs were tried in Shire Hall?”
The talk is £5, and Clive has kindly given the talk for free in support of Shire Hall, meaning that all the proceeds will go towards helping the museum and its educational programme.
Harriet Still, Events and Exhibitions Manager at Shire Hall, said: “We are really excited to host Clive here to talk about justice in a historical and contemporary context, as part of our Civil Rights Movement exhibition Journey to Justice. His unique perspective on current civil rights’ issues, through his international work, will lend an immediacy and global relevance to the stories told through Shire Hall.”
Journey to Justice, the museum’s first touring exhibition, will be on until August 31. The exhibition looks at the every day people who helped change the world through the US and UK Civil Rights Movements.
To book a place and for more information about this and other events please visit shirehalldorset.org. To find out more about Reprieve’s work visit reprieve.org.uk.
