Helena Kennedy
Auteur de Eve Was Framed: Women and British Justice
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Œuvres de Helena Kennedy
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Kennedy, Helena
- Nom légal
- Kennedy of the Shaws, Baroness
- Autres noms
- Kennedy, Helena Ann
- Date de naissance
- 1950-05-12
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Scotland, UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
Loch Lomond, Scotland, UK
Glasgow, Scotland, UK - Études
- Holyrood R.C. Secondary School
Council of Legal Education - Professions
- lawyer
television presenter
politician - Organisations
- Labour Party
- Prix et distinctions
- Fellow, Royal Society of Arts
Queen's Counsel
Life Peerage (1997) - Courte biographie
- Baroness Helena Kennedy, QC, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to a devoutly Roman Catholic working-class family. Her parents were both Labour Party activists; her father was a printer with the Daily Record and a trade union leader. She attended Holyrood Secondary School in Glasgow, and studied law at London's Council of Legal Education. A human rights and civil liberties campaigner, she was an Investigating Commissioner for the EHRC's Human Rights Inquiry into Human Trafficking in Scotland; a commissioner on the National Commission for Education; and a chair of the Human Genetics Commission. She founded her own charity, The Helena Kennedy Foundation, for disadvantaged students. She's married to Iain Hutchison, a surgeon, and has three children. She has written and broadcast on a wide range of issues, from medical negligence to terrorism to the rights of women and children. Her books include Eve Was Framed: Women and British Justice (1993) and Just Law: The Changing Face of Justice and Why It Matters to Us (2004). She was made a life peer as Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws in 1997.
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- Œuvres
- 9
- Membres
- 246
- Popularité
- #92,613
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 17
- Favoris
- 1
Helena Kennedy is a KC and has chaired and been involved in many legal commissions and describes herself as a feminist. She is also from a working class Glasgow family and went into law so as not to end up being a teacher. To hear her read her book gets over some of the passion, anger and frustration she feels. Frivolously, to hear her say "murder" in that classic Glasgow accent is worth the admission alone!
At one sense it is a depressing listen, the lists of cases of women having been raped, murdered, victimised etc etc etc in each chapter is not at all uplifting. More like anger making. She is fair minded in how she describes progress that has been made, but also points out how the law needs to improve, and that is all elements of the law, the police, the legal profession, judges and law makers are all letting the population down. She makes some very good points about equality and that gender neutral language can disguise behaviour that is heavily gendered, giving a misleading representation of that behaviour.
She brings her own experiences into the book, talking of times she has defended a man against an accusation of rape, for instance, and the mixed emotions that position engenders. I'm not sure I necessarily agree with her on every point, but she is considered, interesting, knowledgeable, informative and fair in her assessments.… (plus d'informations)