Legal biographers on their subjects: 2. Advocates

This is a Legal Biography Project event.

Speakers: Sally Smith KC on Marshall Hall KC; Tom Grant KC on Sydney Kentridge KC; Professor Catharine MacMillan on Judah Benjamin KC

A panel discussion led by Professor Ross Cranston and Professor Nicola Lacey

Sally Smith KC obtained her LLB from the LSE. She has specialised in medical law for the past 15 years and has appeared in many national inquiries into health crises.

Sir Edward Marshall Hall KC saved many from the hangman’s noose in an age of inadequate defence funding, minimal forensic evidence, and an unsympathetic judiciary.

Catharine MacMillan is Professor of Private Law at KCL. Her interests include modern legal history. Before academia she was a litigation lawyer in Canada.

Judah Benjamin was a member of the US Senate, a Secretary of State in the Confederate States and after escaping to London at the end of the Civil War a leading barrister and KC.

Tom Grant KC is visiting professor at the Law School. He practises in heavy multi-party disputes in Chancery/Commercial matters. He is a noted author.

Sydney Kentridge KC was one of South Africa’s most prominent anti-apartheid advocates, acting for Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He then became a leader of the London bar.

Ross Cranston is professor of law at the LSE.