Browsing: obituary

Tony Clarke was the least stuffy of men. We were neighbours in the delightfully named hamlet of Stone-cum-Ebony, in Kent, and often spoke when putting the…

My friend Pip Salvador-Jones, who has died aged 61 of gall-bladder cancer, was director of Citizens Advice in the London borough of Barking and Dagenham, one…

G Robert Blakey, who has died aged 90, was one of America’s leading legal scholars, and his speciality was organised crime. He is best remembered for…

The lawyer and elections expert Reg Austin, who has died aged 91, played a key role in the transition to democracy in countries such as Cambodia,…

If Orson Welles’s 1941 film Citizen Kane had been made as a TV movie 60 years later, its Kane would have been Ted Turner. Thanks to…

In 1968, when Ann Barrett qualified in medicine, the fast-changing specialty of oncology was a magnet for young doctors as new drugs and technology were beginning…

My friend Louise London, who has died of cancer aged 78, had an unshakable commitment to human rights, which she pursued as a solicitor on behalf…

My wife, Lorraine Ribbons, who has died aged 72, worked for many years as a volunteer for the Association of Children with Heart Disorders (ACHD), visiting…

If you wanted to identify the ideal judge you just had to watch and listen to my friend Colin Mackay, a high court judge between 2001…

Ten years after the Marchioness pleasure boat sank on a summer’s night in 1989 – drowning 51 people, mainly young partygoers, in the swirling waters of…