GERALD AUSTIN GARDINER has Spent the best part of his life campaigning for a more humane world. His passionate commitment to law reform and his campaign for the abolition of capital punishment, took him right to the top. He was appointed Lord Chancellor to the Labour Government from 1964 to 1970 and was responsible for setting up the Law Commission, a permanent body which reviews British law and proposes reforms to it. Today he is still an active campaigner. He visited Greece under the Colonels' regime, on behalf of Amnesty International. He sponsored the Rehabilitation of Offenders' Bill. He is President of the Howard League for Penal Reform and leads an international campaign to preserve freedom of speech and expression for writers. In 1973 he was appointed Chancellor of the Open University where, remarkably, at the age of 75 he has also enrolled himself as a student.