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My friend Andrew Williamson, who has died aged 78, took part as a lawyer in several key anti-apartheid trials in South Africa and later established himself as an employment law specialist in the UK.
In South Africa, Andrew represented the author and activist Breyten Breytenbach in his 1975 trial under the draconian Terrorism Act. Breytenbach was sentenced to nine years in prison – but escaped the death penalty - for seeking to launch a white wing of the outlawed African National Congress.
Andrew was also instructing solicitor to the barrister Sir Sydney Kentridge in several other apartheid-related cases, and the two of them maintained a close friendship after they both moved to the UK in the late 1970s.
Andrew Philip Faure Williamson, who has died aged 78, distinguished himself both as a lawyer in several key anti-apartheid trials in South Africa and as a labour and employment lawyer of significance in the UK.
His immediate family – widow Jill, daughter Jessica and son Matthew – and many friends remember him as a loving and deeply loyal character holding strong views delivered with vigour.
He was an all-rounder: a talented sportsman excelling in cricket and a keen golfer, which included his captaincy of the Royal Ashdown Golf Club in Sussex in 2002. He was immersed in history, wildlife and the African bush and was a lover of fine wines.