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Lionel Blackman is an English solicitor advocate and senior partner of a criminal litigation practice.〔("UK delegation puts Colombia under legal spotlight" - Doughty Street Chambers )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lionel Blackman (Lionel Blackman Solicitors) )〕 He has an interest in human rights, and is the current chairman of the Solicitors' International Human Rights Group (SIHRG), a group he co-founded in 2005.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Front and inside front covers.pmd - Powered by Google Docs )〕〔(SIHRG )〕 ==Career== Blackman qualified as a lawyer in 1986, opening his own criminal defence practice three years later.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lionel Blackman (Lionel Blackman Solicitors) )〕 He was among the first solicitors, along with Sir David Napley, to take part in higher court advocacy after the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 was passed.〔("Criminal Legal Aid Cuts Examined" - LegalAction )〕 In 1999 he was the second solicitor, after Laurence Collins of Herbert Smith LLP who represented the Chilean government against Pinochet in 1998, to appear and the first to lead and win a case in the House of Lords.〔("Sole practitioner scores first in House of Lords" - The Lawyer )〕 He has been lead defence counsel in several homicide trials at the Old Bailey and elsewhere. In December 2009 he defended Paul Clarke who was charged after handing in to the police a shotgun he found in his garden. Clarke was found guilty because strict liability applies to possession of a gun, intention is not important. Clarke received a twelve-month suspended sentence. The case was covered by the media because of the controversy over the inflexibility of the law on illegal gun possession.〔("U.K. Ex-Soldier Faces 5 Years in Jail for Turning in Discarded Gun" - Fox News )〕〔("Shotgun man faces years in jail" - Channel 4 News )〕 In October 2012 he successfully defended Kai Taliana at the Central Criminal Court against a murder charge and his firm issued a press release drawing attention to failures in the investigation and expertise involved.〔("MurderMap.co.uk" )〕 In December 2012 Mr Blackman successfully defended Daniel Janik who was accused of murdering his friend Przemek Lepkowski in May 2012 in Tooting. The case was a rare instance of sudden and unexpected death from "vagal nerve inhibition combined with intoxication" following an incident of mutual squeezing of necks.〔("Local Guardian" )〕 He is the elected chairman of the Solicitors International Human Rights Group 2009 - 2015. He has an interest in human rights, co-founding the Solicitors' International Human Rights Group in 2005. He was part of a group of delegates who were commissioned by "Justice for Colombia" to visit Colombia in 2006 to write a report on how law in that country compared with international law.〔("Lawyers' Delegation to Colombia" - Rule of Law )〕 He was one of over 200 groups or individuals who endorsed an open letter sent to EU Foreign Minister Baroness Ashton by the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign.〔("Open Letter to EU Foreign Minister Baroness Ashton" - Stop the Wall )〕 When he was vice-chair in 2007, SIHRG was part of a joint statement, along with the Commonwealth Lawyers Association and the Bar Human Rights Committee, expressing concern about reports of poor treatment of solicitors in Zimbabwe who took part in a march to deliver a petition regarding the arrest of two lawyers.〔("Joint Statement on Recent Events in the Republic of Zimbabwe" - CLA )〕 He was part of a group who in February 2010 visited Syed Mustafa Kamal, mayor of Karachi in Pakistan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=News Details )〕 In October 2010 he submitted to the Chilcot Inquiry into the Legality of the War in Iraq a submission on the lack of an humanitarian justification for the intervention〔("Iraq Inquiry Digest" )〕 alongside other legal submissions from the Solicitors International Human Rights Group.〔("www.sihrg.org" )〕 He visited Syria in February 2011 as a member of a delegation sent by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network to observe disbarment proceedings convened by the State controlled Bar of Aleppo against leading human rights lawyers in the region. In November 2012 he published a trial observation report on the politically controversial trial of opposition figure Vladimir Kozlov that took place in Aktau, Kazakhstan between August and October 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kazakhstan Bureau for Human Rights )〕 In October 2014 he co-authored a report on the trial of Egyptian civil society activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah ("the face of the Tahir Square revolution") Lionel Blackman is a Visiting Fellow at London South Bank University in Criminal Litigation at Masters level and lectures internationally on various aspects of the English legal system and the use of high technology in criminal trials.〔("Proof and Evidence Conference" - University of Cambridge )〕〔(Biography on Lionel Blackman Solicitors )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lionel Blackman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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