He was awarded Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 2004 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to Legal Studies. He was the former Master at Clare College at the University of Cambridge.
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England (May 2009)
Son of a trade union leader, he became a lawyer and defended Nelson Mandela. In 2014 he was awarded the gold medal of the Order of Luthuli for his bravery during the apartheid struggle.