Joel Joffe, Baron Joffe

**Joel Goodman Joffe, Baron Joffe**, (12 ga Mayu 1932 - 18 ga Yuni 2017) ya kasance lauya ne na Burtaniya da aka haifa a Afirka ta Kudu kuma abokin Aiki a cikin House of Lords .

## Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi
An haife shi a Johannesburg, Afirka ta Kudu, ga Iyalin Joffe . An haifi mahaifiyarsa a Mandatory Palestine kuma an haifi mahaifinsa a Lithuania, Joffe ya girma a cikin gidan Yahudawa kafin a tura shi makarantar kwana ta Katolika. Ya yi karatu a Jami'ar Witwatersrand (BCom, LLB 1955). 

## Ayyuka
Ya yi aiki a matsayin lauyan kare hakkin dan adam 1958-65, ciki har da matsayin lauyan tsaro na shugabancin ANC a 1963-4 Rivonia Trial, yana taimakawa wakiltar Nelson Mandela da abokan hamayyarsa.

Ya auri mai zane Vanetta Pretorius a 1962 kuma ya koma tare da ita zuwa Ingila a 1965 bayan an hana shi shiga Ostiraliya saboda an dauke shi "marasa kyau". Da zarar a Burtaniya ya yi aiki a masana'antar sabis na kuɗi, ya kafa Hambro Life Assurance tare da Sir Mark Weinberg da kuma bangaren sa kai.

Joffe ya jagoranci Hukumar Lafiya ta Swindon da Marlborough da Asibitin Ridgeway kuma ya kasance memba na Hukumar Royal kan Kula da Tsofaffi. Ya kasance yana da alaƙa da Oxfam a matsayi daban-daban tsakanin 1982 da 2001, gami da kasancewa Shugabanta 1995-2001. Ya kasance amintacce ga kungiyoyi masu agaji daban-daban kuma ya bi ayyukan agaji da yawa ta hanyar Joffe Charitable Trust wanda ya kafa tare da matarsa Vanetta a shekarar 1968.

Ya bayyana a shirin rediyo na BBC Desert Island Discs a ranar 28 ga Oktoba 2007. 

A cikin 2017 Joffe ya bayyana tare da wadanda ake tuhuma da suka tsira a Rivonia Trial, Denis Goldberg, Andrew Mlangeni da Ahmed Kathrada, tare da 'yan uwan lauyoyin kare George Bizos da Denis Kuny, a cikin fim mai suna Life is Wonderful, wanda Sir Nicholas Stadlen ya jagoranta,  wanda ke ba da labarin shari'ar. Taken ya nuna kalmomin Goldberg ga mahaifiyarsa a ƙarshen shari'ar a kan jin cewa shi da abokan aikinsa an kare su daga hukuncin kisa.

### Gidan Ubangiji
Ya zama abokin Rayuwa a ranar 16 ga Fabrairu 2000, an tashe shi zuwa matsayi a matsayin **Baron Joffe**, *na Liddington a cikin County na Wiltshire* .  Asalinsa ya kasance mai tsinkaye, ya zauna a matsayin dan Jam'iyyar Labour daga 18 ga watan Yulin shekara ta 2007. 

A watan Fabrairun shekara ta 2003 ya gabatar da "Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill" a matsayin Dokar Mai zaman kanta, wanda zai ba da izini ga mutuwar da likita ya taimaka. Bayan tattaunawar kwamitin Lords, an sake gabatar da lissafin a watan Nuwamba na shekara ta 2005. A ranar 12 ga Mayu 2006, an sake yin muhawara game da Bill a cikin House of Lords kuma an yi gyare-gyare don jinkirta gabatar da shi da watanni shida da kashi 148-100, wanda ya dakatar da ci gaban lissafin a wannan zaman.

Joffe ya yi ritaya daga House of Lords a ranar 30 ga Maris 2015. 

## Daraja
An ba shi lambar yabo ta Doctorates daga Open University (1995), De Montfort University (2000), JamiYanci na Birnin Landan . 

An nada shi Kwamandan Order of the British Empire (CBE) a cikin 1999 New Year Honours . 

## Rayuwa ta mutum
Joel ya auri Vanetta Joffe (an haife shi Pretorius) a 1962, kuma suna da 'ya'ya mata uku. . Bayahude mai musun wanzuwar Allah kuma ɗan adam ne a cikin imaninsa, Joel memba ne mai kwazo kuma mai kula da Humanists UK, wanda ke kamfen kan batutuwan ɗabi'a kamar taimakawa mutuwa da kuma jihar mai zaman kanta a Burtaniya.

Joffe ya mutu a ranar 18 ga Yuni 2017 a gidansa da ke Liddington bayan gajeren rashin lafiya yana da shekaru 85. An yi bikin rayuwarsa a cikin girmamawa da yawa da kuma mutuwarsu. . Vanetta ta mutu a ranar 6 ga Nuwamba 2023. 

## Littattafai

* Joel Joffe, *Labarin Rivonia*, Littattafan Mayibuye, Cape Town, 1995
* Joel Joffe, *Jihar Vs. Nelson Mandela: Shari'ar da ta Canja Afirka ta Kudu*, Oneworld Publications, 2007

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