THE KING’S LECTURE IN ETHICS

TITLE:  ETHICAL DILEMMAS OF A PUBLIC INTEREST LAWYER

SPEAKER: Richard Meeran, Liberty-JUSTICE Human Rights Lawyer of the Year (2002)

DATE: WEDNESDAY  3 FEBRUARY

TIME: 5:15 PM

VENUE: King’s College, Safra Lecture Theatre (basement), Strand WC2R 2LS

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Richard Meeran has been a partner at London-based public interest firm Leigh Day & Co, since 1991. He has pioneered litigation against British multinationals on behalf of overseas workers.

His cases have included: the Cape PLC case for 7,500 South African asbestos miners; the Thor Chemical case for 40 South African workers poisoned by mercury. Presently he acts for a group of indigenous Peruvian torture victims and in a series of test cases for gold miners with silicosis which are ongoing in the South African courts.

These cases have raised some difficult ethical and moral challenges - the topic of his King's Lecture.

THIS EVENT IS FREE, UNTICKETED, AND OPEN TO ALL