Joel Joffe
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Baron Joel Joffe CBE |
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Joel Goodman Joffe 12 May 1932 South Africa |
| Alma mater | University of Witwatersrand |
| Occupation | Human rights lawyer |
Joel Goodman Joffe, Baron Joffe, CBE (born 12 May 1932) is a South African-born British lawyer and former Labour peer in the House of Lords.
Born in South Africa, he was educated at the University of Witwatersrand (BCom, LLB 1955), and worked as a human rights lawyer 1958–65, including as defence attorney of the leadership of the ANC at the 1963-4 Rivonia Trial, helping to represent Nelson Mandela. Later he moved to the United Kingdom, and worked in the financial services industry, setting up Hambro Life Assurance with Sir Mark Weinberg as well as in the voluntary sector. He was associated with Oxfam in various roles between 1982 and 2001, including being its Chair 1995–2001. He actively pursues a range of charitable activities as chair of the Joffe Charitable Trust.
In 2006 he was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Laws) from the University of Bath.
He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1999 New Year Honours, and made a life peer on 16 February 2000, being raised to the peerage as Baron Joffe, of Liddington in the County of Wiltshire. In February 2003 he proposed as a Private Member's Bill the "Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill", which would legalise physician-assisted dying. After deliberation by a Lords committee, the bill was put forward again in November 2005.
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