Baroness Shami Chakrabarti CBE is special guest speaker at the 2017 Keith Tucker Memorial Lecture at the University on Thursday 19 October.
The event, entitled ‘Women and the law; institutional inequality and the case for radical change‘, is being held in association with the Kent Law Society. It will take place in the Woolf Lecture Theatre, Woolf College, at the University’s Canterbury campus from 18.30 to 19.30. Attendance is free and open to all but tickets must be booked in advance.
Baroness Chakrabarti CBE is Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales. She joined the Labour Party in 2016 after leaving her position as Director for human-rights organisation Liberty. She was first called to the Bar in 1994 and worked in the Home Office for different governments. During her time as Director of Liberty, Baroness Chakrabarti was a member of the Leveson Inquiry into UK phone hacking.
She has first-hand experience of diversity in the workplace and her speech will give an insider’s view of where women are in judicial environments and what legal protections, if any, they are given.
Baroness Chakrabarti is also currently the Chancellor for the University of Essex, having previously held positions of Chancellor and Honorary Professor of Law at Oxford Brookes University and the University of Manchester respectively.
This lecture honours Keith Tucker (former Honorary Secretary of Kent Law Society) and his wife, Marga and this year also District Judge Edwina Miller, former President of the Kent Law Society.