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Clive Stafford Smith: 'If I had my time all over again, I'd defend paedophiles'

Whatever motivates the human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith to defend the despised, it isn't the money. There are some large, honey-coloured houses in the chocolate-box Dorset village of Symondsbury, but the Stafford Smiths' dwelling is not one of them. Clive, his wife Emily and their seven-month-old son, Wilf, inhabit a tiny terraced cottage - comfy enough, but its greatest luxury is copies of The New York Review of Books by the loo. The whole place would fit into the London living-room of some lawyers I know. Nor is there room there for Clive to work. Emily makes me a cup of tea and then, Wilf on hip, guides me outside, round the church, through the grounds of the manor house to a medium-sized garden shed with steamed-up windows, which is where her husband works when he is not in London or on the road.

Full post as published by International and UK Law on March 09, 2009 (boomark / email).