Melanie McFadyean obituary

Campaigning journalist and lecturer who won the Bar Council legal reporting award for her coverage of joint enterprise lawThe outstanding characteristic of the journalist, writer, and lecturer Melanie McFadyean, who has died of cancer aged 72, was fearlessness. To this was added a wild sense of humour, a generosity of spirit and, most of all perhaps, an empathy with the dispossessed. She was a campaigner with an eye only for the subject, and never for her byline. It was this that made her effect