Helena Kennedy

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Baroness Helena Kennedy is a leading British criminal lawyer as well as a life peer - she was eleveated to the House of Lords in 1997. Her practice of law as a barrister – she is a member of the Doughty Street Chambers in London – has involved a large number of prominent cases. These include the Brighton Bombing, the Michael Bettany espionage trial, the Guildford Four appeal and the bombing of the Israeli embassy. She has also acted for many battered women who have killed their husbands. Kennedy is a frequent broadcaster and journalist on law and women's rights and was the creator of the BBC television series Blind Justice in 1987[1]. Her award-winning book on women in the British criminal justice system, Eve was Framed, was published in 1992. She has received 19 honorary doctorates from universities in the United Kingdom and Ireland and two from Russia. She was awarded the UK 'Woman of Europe' award in 1995, and a 'Making a world of difference' award from the National Federation of Women's Institutes in 1996. She was also the recipient of The Times' 'Lifetime Achievement in the Law' award from the Women Lawyers' Conference in 1996. A foundation to help disadvantaged students into higher education has been established in her name: The Helena Kennedy Foundation. Kennedy grew up in Glasgow.


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Contacts

info@helenakennedy.co.uk


References

Information taken from Helena Kennedy website[2]

  1. ^Pettitt, Lance (2000), Screening Ireland: Film and television representation' retrieved July 11th 2007 from

http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/images/cinema/pettitt/pettitt00.htm