Talk:Gareth Peirce

message: Thanks, DBIV, it is starting to shape up. Joaquin Murietta 00:16, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: It's coming along!

message: <Personal attack on Pierce removed per WP:BLP - had nothing to do with improving the article. Sorry it took so long (5 years)! SmartSE (talk) 08:32, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: *At last some truth rather than myth.  Well done. -- 195.92.40.49 20:28, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Nonetheless, speaking apolitically myself, Peirce let Downing Street know almost immediately after it made the news that she did not wish to receive or be invested as CBE, and accepted responsibility for any misunderstanding. Downing Street honoured her wish. It is inaccurate and demeaning to those who earned and wanted their CBEs to describe her as CBE. Hence my edit today. As far as John Lennon remaining an MBE, I don't know, Perhaps that is a different scenario as he received it and was invested before later -- out of pique -- renouncing it. Rms125a@hotmail.com (talk) 20:01, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think she's still officially Gareth Peirce CBE. Where's the source for Downing Street "honouring her wish"? The only reference to 'Gareth Peirce' in the London Gazette is the award of the CBE. And if they did revoke it, that would be a fairly significant event. Indeed she would be the only person as far as I know to have successfully had her 'mistake' (and on that ground alone) gazetted as nullifying the award. --Stevouk (talk) 15:18, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: "People who declined a British honour"

message: The lead paragraph included the line:
:"She is known for her work in high-profile cases representing people with Irish and Muslim backgrounds accused of terrorism."
The cited source, however, actually say:
:"Respected for the way she represents alleged terrorists, initially Irish and now Islamist..."
Firstly, there is a difference between "Muslim" and "Islamist." Secondly, the lead text suggests her work is solely/predominantly in the field of alleged terrorism, even though the main text details three cases that are not terrorism-related, four that are, but in one the individual did not have a Irish "background." I have therefore amended the text. Nick Cooper (talk) 10:24, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mis-leading lead 

message: If you look at the link to his birth date, you will see that it says 1930, not 1928. Hayford Peirce (talk) 03:46, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of birth of Bill Peirce 

message: According to this website, her legal name is Jean Gareth Peirce. Comments? Quis separabit? 23:40, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: According to Twenty Famous Lawyers (John Hostettler, 2013, page 171) she changed her name from "Jean Margaret" to "Gareth". Her law firm, Birnberg Peirce & Partners, gives her name as "Gareth Peirce". The Guardian's "Top 100 Women" names her "Gareth Peirce". She writes for the Guardian under the name "Gareth Peirce". When she was awarded her CBE in 1998 "for services to Justice", it was in the name "Gareth, Mrs. PIERCE". Every article about her work since at least 1975 names her as "Gareth Peirce". In her law firm's letters to The Times since 1975 she has signed herself "Gareth Peirce". Wikipedia doesn't deadname people in BLPs (see for example Jack Monroe); the website you link is not an authority on names in general or Peirce's in particular; the article already states that her forenames at birth were "Jean Margaret", and also states that she has changed her name since birth. Given the more than 40 years' worth of references to her using only the name "Gareth Peirce", there is no reason to alter the article. Keri (talk) 10:23, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Gareth Peirce legal name

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