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Helena Ann Kennedy,
Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws
1972 Called to English bar
1991 Appointed Queen’s Counsel (QC)
1997 Awarded life peerage
1999 Elected to ‘Gray’s Inn’ (one of the
four Inns of Court)
Baroness Helena Kennedy has been Chair of the
British
Council, the United Kingdom's international
organisation
for educational and cultural relations,
since 1998.
Her other high-profile public appointments include
Chair
of the Human Genetics Commission.
Baroness Kennedy
practises predominantly in the
criminal law and has
acted in many leading cases
including the Brighton
Bombing Trial and the
Guildford Four Appeal.
She
is currently chairing an inquiry for the Royal
College of Pathologists and the Royal College of
Paediatrics and Child Health into sudden infant death,
in the aftermath of miscarriages of justice where
mothers were wrongly convicted of murdering their
babies. As a life peer, Baroness Kennedy also
participates in the House of Lords on issues concerned
with human rights, civil liberties, social justice and
culture.
Other current appointments include:
President of the National Children's Bureau and School
of Oriental and African Studies, London University Vice
president of the Association of Women Barristers
Trustee
of the Club of Three, KPMG Foundation and
Tablet Trust
Fellow of Royal Society of Arts and City
and Guilds
London Institute Member of the Foreign
Policy Centre:
advisory council, Independent News & Media: board
and Académie Universelle des Cultures,
Paris (elected)
Past appointments include:
1992–1997: Chair of Charter 88
1994–2001: Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University
1994–2002: Chair of London International Festival
of Theatre
1995–1997: Member of the committee on widening
participation in
further education
British member of the recent International Bar
Association Task Force on Terrorism.
Chair of the Human Genetics Commission.
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