Geoffrey Bindman, who was one of Britain’s most distinguished human rights lawyers, lived and died a man of principle. In normal times, a lawyer who founded the leading law firm Bindman and Partners, who was chair of the British Institute of Human Rights, winner of The Law Society Gazette Centenary Award for Human Rights in 2003, and knighted for his services to human rights, would have received a bevy of tributes on his passing. But these are not normal times. Bindman’s death has been greeted with relative silence, particularly from another human rights lawyer who was close to him and...