Geoffrey Nice

Sir Geoffrey Nice QC (born 21 October 1945) is a British barrister.

Biography

His family home was in Catford, SE 6,[1] and he attended St Dunstan's College, Catford, and then Keble College, Oxford. He became a barrister in 1971 and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1990. Since 1984, he has been a part-time judge at the Old Bailey.[2] Geoffrey Nice was made a Knight Bachelor in 2007.[3] In 2009, he was named Vice-Chair of the Bar Standards Board. In 2012 he was appointed the Professor of Law at Gresham College, a position formerly occupied by Baroness Deech.[2]

Geoffrey Nice has been involved with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). He was a deputy prosecutor at the trial of Slobodan Milošević in The Hague and initiated the prosecution's initial case of linking atrocities committed in the former Yugoslavia to Milosevic. He prosecuted the ICTY the cases of the Bosnian Croat Dario Kordić and the successful prosecution of Goran Jelisić.[4] Since working with the ICTY, Nice has been active in the International Criminal Court (ICC) and in pro bono work for victims groups.[2] His practice includes human rights/public law and personal injury.[3]

In 2009 a conviction Geoffrey Nice had presided over was ordered quashed and retried after a Privy Council Appeal found his handling of the case had resulted in an unfair hearing[5]. A report in the Jersey Evening Post claimed the actions could have cost the Jersey taxpayers "millions of pounds."[6]

Geoffrey Nice is the chair of the China Tribunal, an independent tribunal into forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China.

He co-authored the 2014 Syrian detainee report.

Politics

In the 1983 General Election and 1987 General Election, he was the Social Democratic Party candidate for Dover.[7]

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References
  1. Keble Association (1965) Keble College Address List; p. 88
  2. "Professor Sir Geoffrey Nice QC | Gresham College". Gresham.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-10-31.
  3. "EUROPE | Profile: Sir Geoffrey Nice". BBC News. 2002-02-13. Retrieved 2015-10-31.
  4. "PhD studies in human rights: Geoffrey Nice, Milosevic and the Supreme Defence Council". Humanrightsdoctorate.blogspot.com. 2008-01-25. Retrieved 2015-10-31.
  5. "Privy Council Appeal No 0075 of 2008" (PDF). www.thisisjersey.com via archive.org. 2011-11-19. Retrieved 2020-07-25.
  6. "'Unfair' judge costs millions « Jersey Evening Post". Jerseyeveningpost.com. 2009-11-06. Retrieved 2015-10-31.
  7. https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/hookedonjustice/pages/136/attachments/original/1523967614/legal_aid_letter_to_MPs_WEB_VERS.pdf?1523967614


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