LawWorks: Interviews
Margot Ravenscroft of Amicus
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<p>An interview with Margot Ravenscroft talking about the pro bono student conference and Amicus. Amicus provides assistance to lawyers working with people who are on death row, mainly in the U.S.A.
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<p class="western">Amicus was set up in 1992 in memory of <a href="http://www.amicus-alj.org/about.htm#aljones" target="_blank">Andrew Lee Jones</a>, who was executed in Louisiana in July 1991. The charity aims to help provide legal representation for those awaiting capital trial and punishment in the US and raise awareness of potential abuses of their rights.</p>
<p class="western">Amicus relies on the generosity of volunteers and donors to continue to support those facing the death penalty in the United States. We need help to:</p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">train UK lawyers and students to go and work in the US alongside attorneys (we send over twenty interns a year)</p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">research particular areas of law, and also draft amicus curiae briefs to be presented to US courts</p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">make applications to the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights in Washington about breaches of the American Declaration of Human Rights in death penalty trials</p>
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<p class="western">provide trained trial observers to report on individual cases</p>
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<p class="western">This website will give you information about the work we undertake, about the death penalty in the USA and about how you can become involved.</p>
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