Geoffrey Nice

Geoffrey Nice
Born21 October 1945 
London (United Kingdom) 
Educationprofessor 
Alma mater
OccupationLawyer, barrister (1971) 
Employer
Awards

Sir Geoffrey Nice KC (born 21 October 1945) is a British barrister and former part-time judge. In the 1983 United Kingdom general election and the 1987 United Kingdom general election, he was the unsuccessful Social Democratic Party candidate for Dover. He took part in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and was lead prosecutor at Slobodan Milošević's 2002 trial.

Between 2009 and 2012, he was Vice-Chair of the Bar Standards Board, the body that regulates barristers in England and Wales.

In 2017, Nice published a book, "Justice for All and How to Achieve It". In 2019 he chaired the China Tribunal, an independent people’s tribunal established to inquire into forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China. In 2021 he chaired the Uyghur Tribunal, which examined evidence regarding the ongoing human rights abuses against the Uyghur people by the Government of China.

In 2005 Nice received an Honorary Doctorate of Law from the University of Kent at Canterbury, and in 2021 he received an Honorary Doctorate of Law from the University of Buckingham.