Manus McGuire

“He defined what it is to be a Labour lawyer. He was the archetype and the inspiration for many of the campaigning lawyers who have blazed a trail on the Scottish legal scene in the last few decades.”

“First and foremost, he was a first-class lawyer; a fact that was sometimes overlooked by an opponent, to their grave error, because of his sometimes less than lawyerly external appearance – in an article in the The Herald in 1992 he was affectionately described as ‘a small somewhat dishevelled figure, a miner’s son and staunch Catholic from Armadale, who needs a quick fag to get his breath back after the games of five-a-side football he really shouldn’t still be playing’. His class, background and ideology shaped the lawyer he was driven to become.”

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