Gareth Peirce helped to clear the names of both the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six – all Irish people framed by corrupt British police officers for crimes they didn’t commit.
During her career she also represented Judith Ward, a woman wrongfully convicted in 1974 of several IRA-related bombings and more recently worked for the family of Jean Charles de Menezes, shot dead by mistake by London police on a train.
Her role in the Guildford Four case was later portrayed in the movie ‘In The Name Of The Father’.