His father was lead prosecution counsel in two significant miscarriages of justice, of the Guildford Four and of the Maguire family and Giuseppe Conlon, the latter who died in prison an innocent man.

Jul 30, 2013 · His grandfather Sir Cecil Havers was the judge who sentenced Ruth Ellis, the last woman to hang in Britain, after a 1955 murder trial. His father, the barrister Lord Havers, defended Rolling...

Jun 19, 2020 · My father, who was a QC, allowed me to do it, and I think he’d been made more understanding by the time he was spending with the Stones. He was the defence barrister for Mick Jagger and Keith...

Jul 31, 2013 · Their father (Nigel’s grandfather) was Cecil Robert Havers, also a High Court Judge. He was the trial judge in the conviction of Ruth Ellis for murder in 1955, the last woman to receive capital punishment in the United Kingdom.

Dec 27, 2023 · Nigel Allan Havers, the renowned English actor and presenter, hails from a family with a distinctive legacy in the legal and political spheres. Born in Edmonton, Middlesex, Nigel is the younger of two boys, with an older brother named Philip.

May 17, 2020 · Very well connected, his late father was Baron Michael Havers, the lawyer who successfully defended the Rolling Stones on their infamous 1967 drugs charge, and the actor’s godson is the...

Aug 23, 2016 · His father, Michael Havers QC, later became Lord Chancellor in Margaret Thatcher's Government. Nigel revisits the flat at his father's former legal chambers, which he hasn't been back to...

Jul 14, 2021 · His father is Sir Michael Havers (later Lord Havers), a barrister who later became the Attorney General for England and Wales. He later attended Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, an independent school in London - shunning the Eton education favoured by the rest of his family.

Nigel's grandfather was Sir Cecil Robert Havers, the judge who sentenced Ruth Ellis to hang. Nigel went to visit his father's older brother Tony Havers who is about 95 years old and lives in Hampshire.

2 days ago · Nigel Havers, born on November 6, 1951, in Edmonton, Middlesex, England, has long been celebrated as the epitome of the fascinating English gentleman in film, ... His father, Sir Michael Havers (later Lord Havers), turned into an outstanding barrister who served as Attorney General for England and Wales and in short as Lord Chancellor in the 1980s.