Harriet Wistrich
Harriet K. Wistrich (born 1960 in Hampstead , London ) is a British lawyer and suffragette.
Life
Harriet Wistrich grew up in a liberal upper-middle class family. She is the daughter of Enid Wistrich, who worked as a political science reader at Middlesex University . Her father Ernest Wistrich comes from Gdansk and went to safety as a schoolboy in England before the Holocaust. He worked as a union secretary and became director of the European Movement in 1966 .
Wistrich studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford University . She then studied law and graduated from Westminster University in 1995 . In 1997 she passed the solicitor exam .
Wistrich co-founded the Justice for Women (JFW) group in 1991 , which takes care of the legal representation of female violent criminals who have been mistreated by their partners. Together with her partner Julie Bindel, she achieved a change of judgment in 1995 and with it the release of Emma Humphreys, who had stabbed her boyfriend to death at the age of seventeen. They could prove that Humpreys had been mistreated before. Humpreys died three years later of an overdose of intoxicants. Bindel and Wistrich then published Humprey's diary and donated a prize for engagement against violence against children and women.
In 2002 Wistrich was accepted into the law firm Birnberg Peirce and Partners . Wistrich repeatedly represented women in processes that were also discussed in public. In 2005 she was a lawyer for the family of the Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes , who was accidentally shot by the police .
Wistrich writes articles for The Guardian newspaper .
Fonts (selection)
- The Use and Misuse of Identity Politics , in D. Harway (Ed.): A Word in Edgeways: Jewish Feminists Respond . London: Jewish Feminist Publications, 1988, pp. 22-29
- with Julie Bindel: The Map of My Life: The Story of Emma Humphreys. Astraia, London 2003, ISBN 978-0-95463-410-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Harriet Wistrich in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Harriet Wistrich in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Rahila Gupta: Women defenders of human rights: the good, the great and the gutsy , at opendemocracy, January 12, 2015
- Harriet Wistrich , Guardian Article Directory
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harriet Wistrich: Ernest Wistrich obituary , obituary, in: The Guardian, June 12, 2015
- ↑ Harriet Wistrich: Jean Charles de Menezes , in: Socialist lawyer , Vol. 51, 2009, pp. 12-14
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wistrich, Harriet |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wistrich, Harriet K. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British lawyer and suffragette |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hampstead (London) |