Obituary: David/Sonia Burgess human rights lawyer.

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This was the person who was pushed under the tube train last week and quite honestly, they were very active as a migration and human rights lawyer, involved with transsexual rights as well as other cases. Anyone who can get the Home Secretary found guilty of contempt of court has to be pretty clever. Such a loss to minority communities everywhere. Do read it and see.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2010/nov/02/david-burgess-obit...

Angharad

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Yebbut

He was a man in a skirt who.....
Glad to see that the usual suspect came up with a decent obit. I shudder to think what the others will have done, if they have bothered at all.

David Burgess

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I spoke to David Burgess on a regular basis in the early 1990s and met him several times, He was a considerate and polite man, although we frequently had differing points of view.

I never knew Sonia however.
 
Shiraz
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