Adrian Davies

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Adrian Davies (born 17 June 1962) is chairman of the British Freedom Party, a solicitor and a barrister based in Lincoln's Inn, London. He is the son of the late traditional Catholic writer, Michael Davies.

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[edit] Education

Davies was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge where he took a first class honours degree in modern languages in 1985 and London University where he took a LLM degree. Davies is fluent in French and Croatian. [1]

[edit] Legal career

After initially qualifying and practising litigation for six years as a solicitor with the magic circle firm, Slaughter and May, Davies retrained as a barrister and was called to the bar in 1998; he now practises at 3 Dr Johnson's Buildings[2].

He unsuccessfully represented the controversial British Holocaust denier David Irving at his appeal against his original failed libel action Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books.

In August 2007 Davies unsuccessfully represented two members of the British National Party in an appeal against a libel judgement given at first instance in favour of Searchlight Magazine[3].

Responding to the suggestion that his track record in defending nationalists was poor, Davies commented: "You'll find that representing nationalists before a predominantly liberal judiciary isn't easy. Personally I would far rather spend my time undertaking commercial cases for large fees than political cases for modest fees, or legal aid rates, or indeed without fee for those who cannot afford it. I'd rather your people went to Bonkers Bagel the bogus barrister than trouble me with their problems, but feel morally obliged to help those in need, rather than fleece the poor to build a bigger and better barn extension." [4]

[edit] Politics

Davies was previously an executive council member of the Conservative Monday Club and a former executive committee member of Tory Action. He is also a co-founder of the little-known Bloomsbury Forum, and audited the accounts of the British National Party in 2000.

He addressed a fringe meeting of the Conservative Democratic Alliance at the Conservative Party (UK) Conference in October 2002.

Davies was the Freedom Party's sole candidate in the 2005 general election contesting South Staffordshire, which, owing to the death of a candidate, was postponed from May 5th to June 23rd. His manifesto embraced, inter alia, opposition to immigration (using the slogan "Enoch Powell was right!), the European Union and the euro and favoured a protectionist economic stance [5]. Davies polled 473 votes, 1.7% of all those cast.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Curriculum Vitae of Adrian Davies
  2. ^ Curriculum Vitae of Adrian Davies
  3. ^ BNP activists lose appeal in politically motivated libel case, Searchlight Magazine August 2007
  4. ^ British Democracy Forum, 17 March 2008
  5. ^ Adrian Davies, election leaflets, 2005

[edit] External links

[edit] Publications

  • Standardbearers - British Roots of the New Right, (editor with Jonathan Bowden and Eddy Butler, Bloomsbury Forum publication, Beckenham, Kent, April 1999, (P/B).
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