DAVID MAXWELL FYFE - IN THE NEWS
From The Guardian March 2009
From The Daily Telegraph March 2009
From Chatham House The World Today June 2015
Three Weeks August 2014
BuzzFeed October 2016
UK Human Rights Blog November 2010
From The Daily Mail March 2009
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The surprising story of how a British Conservative politician played a key role in creating the
European Convention on Human Rights
was made by the Met Film School and RightsInfo
to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Nuremberg Nazi war crime trials.
It was inspired by the life and words of
David Maxwell Fyfe (1900-1967).
A live historic reading of extracts from the Nuremberg Trials staged on the 70th anniversary of the start of the trials. Read by descendants of
Judge Sir Geoffrey Lawrence (presiding judge at Nuremberg), prosecutor Sir David Maxwell Fyfe and defendant, Hans Frank. Recorded at The Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law by Altitude Films
Scotland on Sunday January 2020
Scottish Legal News January 2020
European Human Rights Law Review November 2020
The New European February 2021
Letter to the Editor from Maxwell Fyfe's great grandchildren