Griffiths pursued a law career after his father told him stories about
Norman Manley QC, the first Prime Minister of Jamaica. Griffiths was
called to the bar in 1980. and
Leeds Metropolitan University. In 2008, he gave the annual Norman Manley Lecture at the Norman Manley Law School,
University of the West Indies, which aims to highlight issues of national and international public concern. On 16 March 2021, while representing
Claudia Webbe, Griffiths was taken to hospital by ambulance.
Notable cases •
Brighton hotel bombing •
Harrods bombing •
1996 Docklands bombing •
Risley Prison riot •
Dartmoor Prison riot • R v
Silcott & others - the
Keith Blakelock murder trial which arose out of the
Broadwater Farm Estate riot • Goswell v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis - for a while, this case recorded the highest award of damages made by a jury against a police force •
Charles Taylor trial in
The Hague, 2007–2012 ==Personal life and death==