Power Hour with Baroness Helena Kennedy KC
Power Hour with Baroness Helena Kennedy KC
John Smith Centre
Date: Monday 22 May 2023
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Venue: Webinar
Category: Public lectures, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events
Speaker: Baroness Helena Kennedy KC & Kezia Dugdale
Website: uofglasgow.zoom.us/webinar/register/9616787869490/WN_5kE3zFJsRfadX_mrvPmcXg
Helena Kennedy KC is one of the country’s most distinguished and recognised lawyers. She has spent her career championing civil liberties and promoting human rights, and has been a barrister is some of the UK’s highest profile cases including the Brighton Bombing, the Guildford Four appeal and the bombing of the Israeli embassy.
More than 30 years ago she published the seminal legal book “Eve Was Framed”, an eye-opening analysis of the disadvantages that women face in the criminal justice system. Since then much has changed for women, but progress has been slow within the justice system. In 2021, she was asked by the Scottish Government to head up a working group to explore if there could be a stand-alone crime of misogyny in Scotland. Baroness Kennedy said she was shocked by what the working group was told, and called for a new law to tackle violence and abuse against women. How will this work in practice? Will it shift the dial onto how men behave?
The Scottish Government has said it will consider the report’s recommendations.
We are thrilled Baroness Kennedy is joining our Women in Public Life Power Hour Series.
The event will be chaired by Kezia Dugdale and there will be plenty of time for audience Q&A.
The John Smith Centre exists to make the positive case for politics and public service.