Survival International speaker

An international lawyer famous for representing Botswana bushmen will be delivering a public lecture at Edge Hill University on Wednesday 28 October. 

Gordon Bennett acted as lead counsel in a landmark case in Botswana in which the Kalahari Bushmen successfully established a claim to their ancestral territories.  

The case, widely reported both in the international press, was the longest and most expensive case in the country's history. The Bushmen and Survival International believe that the Bushmen were evicted because their land was rich in diamonds.  

Gordon has also advised on tribal land claims in Guyana, Tanzania and Kenya specialises in Chancery and Commercial Litigation Landlord and Tenant Property. 

Gordon gained his first class honours in law from the University of Edinburgh, where he was the Vans Dunlop scholar and a Master's degree in law from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was the Philip Johnson scholar. 

Gordon works for Survival International, the only international organisation supporting tribe's people worldwide.