Her publications include "I don't mind the sex, it's the violence": Film Censorship Explored (1979),[8][9] The Politics of Transport (1983), and, with David M. Smith, Devolution and Localism in England (2014).

[citation needed] Ernest was originally from the Free City of Danzig; he attended boarding school in Brighton before moving to the UK permanently shortly before Germany invaded Poland in 1939.

[8][10] Raised as secular, non-kosher and non-Zionist,[11] the children joined the Woodcraft Folk and lived in what Julie Bindel called a "liberal, upper-middle-class household".

[8] Wistrich went to Hampstead School and City of East London College,[12] then Oxford University, where she became a feminist, came out as a lesbian, and graduated with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

[15][3][16] E. Jane Dickson wrote in The Independent in 1995 that the group was run by Wistrich, Bindel and their dog, Peggy, out of their home in North London.

In September 1992 she wrote to JFW from prison asking for help, and with Wistrich's and Bindel's support, she successfully appealed the conviction, claiming long-term provocation.

News reports from 7 July 1995 (right) show the three women leaving the Old Bailey after the judges ordered that Humphreys be released.

[13] She has represented several women in successful appeals against murder convictions, including Stacey Hyde, Christine Devaney, Diane Butler, and Kirsty Scamp,[6] and other litigants in high-profile cases.

The latter include Jane Andrews, who was released on licence in 2015,[20][21] two female detainees in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre who alleged sexual assault by staff,[22] eight women affected by the UK undercover policing relationships scandal,[23] and two women who were attacked by John Worboys, a serial rapist; they successfully sued the police for having failed to investigate their complaints.