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Francis Deutsch was an outstanding radical lawyer and a pioneer of legal policy
RosWollen
Mon 22 Feb 2021 06.25 EST
Last modified on Fri 2 Apr 2021 14.04 EDT
My foster brother, Francis Deutsch, has died aged 94 from Covid-19, following a short illness. He was an outstanding radical lawyer and a pioneer of legal policy, whose life was driven by a sense of justice, belief in democracy and commitment to support the most vulnerable in society.
Francis came to the UK from Austria on the Kindertransport at the age of 13, arriving in Harwich, Essex, speaking no English. He was fostered by my father, Leslie Wollen, a Methodist minister, and his wife, Hilda