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his natural sociability, made
Cooper the ideal tutor. Teaching
became an important part of his
living, with jurists and civil ser-
vants in the Ministry of Justice,
Foreign Office, and Depart-
ment for International Devel-
opment, and more widely — in
Turkey, where somewhat im-
probably he developed strong
links with the armed services, in
the former Yugoslavia, Albania
and in Africa. He was appointed
OBE in 2008 for services to
human rights and was later
awarded an honorary doctorate
from his alma mater.
As developing countries in-
creasingly aspired to inter-
national legal recognition, he
saw the chance to use that ambi-
tion as leverage for legal reform
at home. He focused on legally-
entrenched discrimination
against the LGBT+ community
in the Commonwealth, where
legal systems are usually closely
based on British legal codes.
He fought anti-gay legislation
in Africa, championed through-
out the Caribbean the cause of
same-sex couples who wanted
to marry, and was instrumental
in preparing the 2012 landmark
case contesting Jamaica’s
colonial-era laws on gay sex
in the Inter-American Court of
Human Rights.
In the early 1990s Cooper met
and fell in love with the actor,
writer and art historian Kevin
Childs whom he later married. A
tug of war between London and
Devon eventually settled in fa-
vour of the latter, and they occu-
pied the hilltop farmhouse avolved in drama, and as a lead-
ing member of the lesbian and
gay scene invited the politician
Chris Smith to speak about
being then the only “out” MP.
The dominant issue in the gay
community at the time was the
Aids crisis. “My first job after
university,” he said later, “was as
Aids co-ordinator for the Hae-
mophilia Society, just as the
issues affecting people with hae-
mophilia and HIV were at their
most extreme. That was how I
realised both the strength and
the weakness of law. I saw its
potential, but where people did
use it, they rarely succeeded. I
realised that the weakness of the
system of government in this
country was the lack of any kind
of rights framework.”
A diploma in law at City Uni-
versity was followed by pupil-
lage in 1993 at Doughty Street
Chambers, and the beginning ofclose professional friendships
with, among others, his pupil-
master Edward Fitzgerald, Keir
Starmer and Geoffrey Robert-
son. Soon learning his prefer-
ence for public policy over
courtroom advocacy, he worked
on human rights policy develop-
ment with the Institute for
Public Policy Research.
Intimate knowledge of both
the law and the principles of
human rights, combined withHe challenged
homophobic
legislation in Africa
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Highly original human rights barrister who fought discrimination around the world
Those meeting Jonathan Coop-
er for the first time often felt a
strong urge to polish his glasses.
It was hard to believe that
through those lenses he could
see you. Yet to volunteer would
elicit a polite rebuff. “My glasses
are not dirty,” he would reply.
“They are scratched. That is
different.”
Such distinctions were impor-
tant to Jonathan Cooper, who
was known as a tireless and
highly original legal campaign-
er. Recognising and embracing
from his teenage years that he
was gay, he spent much of his
energy trying to end discrimina-
tion against homosexuality.
From that passion came a
strong interest, developing into
internationally-recognised ex-
pertise, in human rights. That
took him in his late twenties to
the Bar, though litigation was
never his strongest suit. His em-
pathetic personality did not suit
him well for the detached, trans-
actional process of representing
clients in court. His ruling pas-
sions were interpreting the prin-
ciples of human rights, codify-
ing them in law, sharing his in-
sights by teaching and training
others and applying them in the
fight to end discrimination and
persecution.
Jonathan Paul Cooper was
born in 1962 in Salford, the
youngest of three children to
Jackie and Peter Cooper, who
together set up the prototype
market research agency Cooper
Research and Marketing. Its
commercial success soon took
them to London, and then in the
early 1970s through the pur-
chase of a small farm in the
South Hams, to Devon. Cooper
went first to the King Edward VI
comprehensive school in Tot-
nes, then to the experimental
and ultra-liberal Dartington
Hall School. Its open-minded
and inclusive ethos influenced
him greatly, though its lack of
academic ambition may ac-
count for his choice to read his-
tory at the under-appreciated
University of Kent at Canter-
bury. It pained him when Dart-
ington was subsequently closed
after a scandal with a nude
headmaster.
At Kent, according to a con-
temporary, “he set up the his-
tory society so he could be its
first chairman”, was much in-
mile from a spectacular coast-
line that is part of the National
Trust’s Coleton Fishacre estate.
They were highly convivial
and generous hosts, and with
their labrador they swam almost
daily.
A committed pro-European,
and editor since 2000 of Euro-
pean Human Rights Law Review,
Cooper was “always the most
fun person in every room he
entered”, according to one ac-
quaintance who worked with
him at the time. When the UK
voted to leave the EU in 2016 he
saw the opportunity for a cam-
paign. Founding with Childs the
Totnes City State, he was re-
ported by the BBC as “issuing an
oath of allegiance to the EU”.
“There is a serious side to it,”
he said. “There’s so much to be
had from being a European citi-
zen.” With supporters he nailed
the proclamation of the city
state to the door of the town’s
medieval guildhall. EU Totnes
City State passports, in convin-
cing facsimile and bearing the
image of the founder of Totnes,
Prince Brutus of Troy, were
handed out to passers-by.
At Doughty Street Chambers
he initiated a programme of
LGBT-themed lectures and
events. Dubbed “OUTy Street”
— a brand credited to Cooper by
the co-head of chambers
Robertson — they continued
his passion for engaging the
next generation of lawyers and
campaigners. “No one,” added
Robertson, “more deserves to be
in the pantheon of LGBT cru-
saders.”
Though a lifelong Labour
voter, Cooper readily expressed
his regard for the social reform-
ing work of the local Conserva-
tive MPs Anthony Steen and his
successor Sarah Wollaston. He
admired Starmer and the
feelings were mutual, as was
clear later from the Labour
party leader’s address at
Cooper’s funeral. Of Boris
Johnson his feelings were less
warm.Jonathan Cooper OBE, lawyer,
was born on September 22, 1962.
He died of a heart attack on
September 18, 2021, aged 58Jonathan Cooper
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