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Baroness Helena Kennedy QC

Baroness Helena Kennedy  QC
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. Appointed Queen's Counsel in 1991 and made a Labour Life Peer in 1997, Lady Kennedy practises predominantly in the criminal law and as acted in many leading cases including the Brighton Bombing Trial and the Guildford Four Appeal.

A regular broadcaster and journalist, she presented Channel 4's After Dark series now on BBC 4. Her award-winning book on women in the criminal justice system, Eve was Framed, was published in 1992.

 


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