Amédée Turner

Amédée Edward Turner QC (26 March 1929 – 13 September 2021) was a British barrister and politician, who served for fifteen years as a Conservative Party Member of the European Parliament.Turner's mother, Ruth Hempson, came from a Huguenot Swiss family,[2] and his parents moved in 1946 to a converted Jacobean barn[3] in Westleton, Suffolk.[5] Turner acted for Eli Lilly and Co. Ltd. against the Chelsea Drug Chemical Co. Ltd for infringing the patent on penicillin;[7] he succeeded in persuading the Judge to grant the injunction.[2] In November 1979 he used his position on the Legal committee to argue against a European directive laying down a requirement on employers to consult with workers on major decisions affecting their workplace.[15] The committee's final report, agreed in February 1980, was largely written by Turner and rejected the European Commission's proposals which had been prepared eight years previously.[5] When the Conservative MEPs joined the European People's Party in 1992, Turner was named chairman of the Committee on Internal Affairs and Civil Rights.
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