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.
[8] Turner began writing study papers for the Conservative Party in 1950,[5] and was selected as candidate for Norwich North for the 1964 general election.
Norwich North was a Labour-held seat and Turner was defeated by 6,491 votes, but the swing in the constituency was below 1% to Labour in contrast to a national trend of 3.2%.
[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.
[22] Turner returned to work as senior counsel in Brussels to Oppenheimer, Wolff and Donnelly, a United States law firm.