After Dinner Speakers: Helena Kennedy, Emma Thompson, The Reduced Shakespeare Company

Baroness Helena Kennedy became a Queen's Counsel in 1991 and received a life peerage in 1997. She practises predominantly in criminal law and has acted in many of the leading British cases of the last decade, including the Brighton Bombing Trial and the Guildford Four Appeal. Baroness Kennedy is the Chair of the British Council, Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University and has fifteen honorary doctorates in law. She has recently been made a Bencher of Gray's Inn and a Fellow of the City and Guilds London Institute. She is Chair of the London International Festival of Theatre, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and President of the National Children's Bureau. A frequent broadcaster and journalist on law and women's rights, she created the BBC television series Blind Justice in 1987.