Bob Hepple

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Sir Bob Alexander Hepple QC (born August 11, 1934 in Johannesburg , † August 21, 2015 in Cambridge ) was a South African- British legal scholar. His main focus was labor law . He was indicted in the 1963 Rivonia Trial , in which opposition leaders like Nelson Mandela were sentenced to life imprisonment.

Life

Hepple's father was the socialist Alexander "Alex" Hepple, from 1953 to 1958 chairman of the South African Labor Party , his mother Josephine Zwarenstein. Hepple attended Jeppe High School in Johannesburg from 1947 to 1954 and studied at the University of the Witwatersrand , where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1954 and a Bachelor of Law in 1957, the best in his class. During this time he worked as a student leader, including chairman of the Student Liberal Association. In 1952 he was arrested for violating the Illegal Squatting Act because he and others had invited others to a concert in a township that was intended as a political demonstration against apartheid . He was acquitted. From 1959 to 1961 Hepple was a lecturer at Witwatersrand University, and from 1962 to 1963 he worked as a lawyer. He also served as legal adviser to the trade union federation South African Congress of Trade Unions . After the declaration of a state of emergency in the course of the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, he ran the affairs of individual black unions with a power of attorney from the imprisoned union leaders. Hepple was a member of the 1962 banned Congress of Democrats .

Bob Hepple was one of the supporters of the underground Nelson Mandela. In 1962, Mandela was caught and charged with inciting strike and illegal border crossing. With Mandela's attorney Joe Slovo banned, Mandela hired Hepple to defend him. Mandela was sentenced to five years in prison. On July 11, 1963, Hepple was arrested after a police raid on Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia . The farm had served as the secret headquarters of the leadership of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed arm of the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP). Hepple was named Accused No. 11 accused of sabotage like ten other inmates . He was tortured while in custody . He offered himself as a witness pro forma and was then dismissed. Before he had to testify, however, he fled with the help of the lawyer Bram Fischer and his wife via Bechuanaland and Tanganyika to Great Britain; the two children left a few months later.

Until 1966, studied Hepple at Clare College of the University of Cambridge , where he earned a Bachelor of Law (First Class). From 1966 to 1968 he was a lecturer at the University of Nottingham before moving back to Cambridge, where he became a Fellow at Clare College and taught from 1969 to 1976. In 1976 he was appointed Professor of Comparative Social and Labor Law at the University of Kent , Canterbury . From 1982 to 1993 he was Professor of English Law at University College London - from 1989 to 1993 he was Dean of the Faculty . In 1990 he returned to South Africa for the first time; In 1991 he helped to amend the labor law for Namibia, which had just become independent . Until 2003 he was a master's at Clare College for ten years , and from 1995 to 2001 he was Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge. From 2000 to 2005 he was an honorary professor at the University of Cape Town . In 2003 he was appointed a Fellow of the British Academy . Among other things, he worked as an advisor to the European Commission and the International Labor Organization (ILO).

Hepple married Shirley Goldsmith in 1960, with whom he had two children. After the divorce in 1994, he married Mary Coussey that same year, who brought two children into the marriage.

Awards

Works

Hepple authored numerous works on labor law, including Volume XV of the International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law , and on other legal topics. He also wrote a biography of his father and a book about Nelson Mandela from 1960 to 1963. The extensive bibliography can be found under web links .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in The Independent , accessed December 15, 2016
  2. ↑ a b c d e portrait at sahistory.org.za (English), accessed on August 18, 2014
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Bob Hepple on the University of Cambridge website , accessed August 18, 2014
  4. ↑ Portrait of Hepple in Review by Bob Hepple: Labor Law and Global Trade. (English), accessed on August 18, 2014
  5. ↑ Photos from Hepple's life; last picture of the series ( Memento from January 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Knights and Dames: HA-HOR at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
personal data
SURNAME Hepple, Bob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hepple, Sir Bob Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African-British lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Johannesburg
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 2015
Place of death Cambridge