Catherine Scorer Explained

Catherine Scorer (1947–1986) was a solicitor, an author and an active member of the National Council for Civil Liberties.^[1]

She was on the executive of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers and of the National Council for Civil Liberties of which she was the chair in 1983-1984. She was the council's first Northern Ireland officer and chaired its Northern Ireland committee, having been involved in the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association. She was on the executive committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain.^[2]

She typed a statement for Kenneth Lennon, an Irish police informant, three days before he was found shot dead in a ditch in Surrey in 1974.^{[3] [4]}

Publications

• Fight Tory Laws, Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions, 1985
• (with Patricia Hewitt) The New Prevention of Terrorism Act: The Case for Repeal, Civil Liberties Trust, 1985
• (with Ann Sedley) Amending the Equality Laws, Civil Liberties Trust, 1983
• Prevention of Terrorism Act: The Case for Repeal, National Council for Civil Liberties, 1981
• The Prevention Of Terrorism Acts 1974 And 1976: A Report On The Operation Of The Law, National Council for Civil Liberties, 1976

Notes and References

1. Book: Moores . Chris . Civil Liberties and Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Britain . 2017 . Cambridge University Press . 9781107088610 . 160.
2. News: Scorer Cash . 26 March 2019 . ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMMUNIST BIOGRAPHIES . Graham Stevenson. 20 September 2008.
3. Book: Chibnall . Steve . Law-and-Order News: An analysis of crime reporting in the British press . 1977 . Tavistock Press . London . 198.
4. News: Shuster . Alvin . Slain Irishman Had Charged Plot by Scotland Yard . 26 March 2019 . New York Times . 17 April 1974.