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The remarkable story of Sir Sydney Kentridge QC the greatest living barrister

Sydney Kentridge carved out a reputation as South Africas most prominent antiapartheid advocate his story is entwined with the countrys emergence from racial injustice and oppression He is the only lawyer to have acted for three winners of the Nobel Peace Prize Nelson Mandela Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Chief Albert Lutuli Already worldfamous for his landmark cases including the Treason Trial of Nelson Mandela and the other leading members of the ANC the inquiry into the Sharpeville massacre and the inquest into the death of Steve Biko he then became Englands premier advocate

Through the great setpieces of the legal struggle against apartheid cases which made the headlines not just in South Africa but across the world this biography is a portrait of enduring moral stature

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