Geoffrey Bindman is senior partner of Bindman and Partners, a firm he founded in 1974. As noted by The Legal 500 2002 Edition, "Bindman & Partners remains [England's] premier civil liberties firm. It has a wide-ranging practice covering most aspects of human rights and civil liberties cases and has a strength in depth that other firms find hard to match." After obtaining the degrees of Bachelor of Arts (later Master of Arts) and Bachelor of Civil Law at Oxford University, he passed the Law Society's Final Examination with honours in 1959. He has specialised in civil liberty and human rights issues and has acted in many leading cases. From 1966 to 1976 he was Legal Adviser to the Race Relations Board and thereafter until 1983 to the Commission for Racial Equality. He is a Visiting Professor of Law at University College London, an Honorary Fellow in Civil Legal Process at the University of Kent, and a Fellow of the Society of Advanced Legal Studies.

Mr. Bindman has represented the International Commission of Jurists, the International Bar Association, Amnesty International, and other bodies in human rights missions in several countries, including the former Soviet Union, Germany, South Africa, Chile, Uganda, Namibia, Malaysia, Israel and the Occupied Territories, and Northern Ireland. In 1988 he was a member of a United Kingdom mission monitoring the constitutional referendum in Chile and in 1994 was a United Nations Observer at the first democratic elections in South Africa.

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