Joel Joffe
Joel Goodman Joffe, Baron Joffe (born May 12, 1932 in Johannesburg , † June 18, 2017 in London , according to other information in Liddington ), CBE , was a South African - British politician of the British Labor Party and human rights lawyer. He was one of Nelson Mandela's criminal defense lawyers in the Rivonia Trial .
Life
Joffe's mother was from Palestine , his father from Lithuania . Although his parents were Jews , he attended a Catholic boarding school. He then studied at the Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, where he graduated in 1955 with a Bachelor of Commerce and Laws . From 1958 to 1965 he worked as a human rights lawyer . From 1960 he had a legal practice with Fred Zwarenstein and James Kantor , who had been imprisoned after the arrest of a group of resistance fighters in Rivonia . Winnie Mandela , wife of Nelson Mandela , who was also arrested , asked Joffe to take over Mandela's defense. After the Rivonia Trial was over, Joffe's passport was confiscated, but in 1965 he was granted an exit permit and went to Great Britain . There he worked for various insurance companies, including as deputy chairman of the board . In addition, Joffe volunteered at various organizations, from 1980 at Oxfam , where he was elected chairman in 2001.
In 2000 he was raised as Baron Joffe , of Liddington in the County of Wiltshire , to the Life Peer and was thus a member of the House of Lords . He actively campaigned for euthanasia and supported the CIDA City Campus . On March 30, 2015, Joffe voluntarily retired and left the House of Lords under the rules of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014.
Awards
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire , awarded in 1999
- Honorary master's degree from Brunel University , awarded in 2004
- Honorary Doctorate from the University of Bath , awarded in 2006
- Supreme Commander of the Order of the Baobab , awarded in 2010
- Freedom of the City of London, awarded in 2016
Web links
- Joffe ceremony on the pages of South African President (English)
- Short biography ( memento of October 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) at parliament.uk (English; archive version)
- Literature by and about Joel Joffe in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lord Joffe's Biography at Debrett’s (English; archive version).
- ↑ Death report at news24.com (English), accessed on June 20, 2017
- ↑ Tributes paid to Lord Joel Joffe who has passed away aged 85. swindonadvertiser.co.uk, accessed June 20, 2017
- ↑ a b c CV at oxfam.org.uk (English), accessed on June 21, 2017
- ↑ Oxfam Annual Review 2001 ( Memento of April 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (pdf), accessed on November 22, 2011 (English).
- ^ A new proposal for assisted suicide . In: The Guardian, July 28, 2010, accessed November 22, 2011.
- ^ Baron Joel Joffe of Liddington - 2004 ( memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (English).
- ↑ Internal News of the University of Bath, December 13, 2006 , accessed November 22, 2011.
- ↑ Joel Joffe at sahistory.org.za (English), accessed on July 30, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Joffe, Joel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Joffe, Joel Goodman, Baron Joffe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African lawyer, Labor Party politician and human rights lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Johannesburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 18th June 2017 |
| Place of death | London or Liddington |