Baroness Hale of Richmond, the Deputy President of The Supreme Court and the most senior female judge in the UK, will speak about human rights and social justice in a talk to be delivered on Kent’s Canterbury campus on Thursday 6 October.

The talk, open to all, will explore the scope for protection of socio-economic rights under the European Convention on Human Rights.
Earlier in the day, Lady Hale will also open the Wigoder Law Building together with alumnus and major supporter The Hon Charles Wigoder. The £5 million building is the new home for Kent Law Clinic, a partnership between students, academics and local solicitors and barristers providing legal advice and representation to people in the local community who couldn’t otherwise afford to pay for it. The new building provides expanded facilities for Law Clinic staff, students and clients on the ground floor together with new facilities for Kent Law School’s active mooting programme on the first floor, including judges’ chambers, a robing room and a replica courtroom.

Lady Hale https://www.supremecourt.uk/about/biographies-of-the-justices.html became the UK’s first woman Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in 2004 and the first woman Justice of The Supreme Court in 2009. She was appointed Deputy President of The Supreme Court in June 2013 and was assessed as the fourth most powerful woman in the UK by BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour.

Lady Hale’s talk will be held in Woolf Lecture Theatre at 18.00 https://www.facebook.com/events/570550449806415/ (and not at 17.00 as first advertised).