Shami Chakrabarti | Human Rights: The Case for the Defence
Sat 23 Nov 2024 | 10:00am - 11:00am
THIS EVENT IS NOW CANCELLED
Unfortunately Shami Chakrabarti has had to withdraw from the festival.
Tickets for this event are valid for our replacement event with Sayeeda Warsi at the same time and in the same venue, 10am on Sat 23 November in the Cambridge Union. If you have purchased tickets and would like to attend the talk with Baroness Warsi you do not need to do anything.
However if you would prefer a refund please contact us at hello@cambridgeliteraryfestival.com.
Venue: Cambridge Union
Duration: 1 hour
Tickets available soon.
Author Biography
Shami Chakrabarti is a leading British human rights lawyer and campaigner who has written and broadcast widely and held a number of public roles in recent decades. A legislator in the House of Lords, she is the author of On Liberty and Of Women. Director of Liberty (the National Council for Civil Liberties) from 2003 to 2016, she was Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales from 2016 to 2020.
Chair Biography
Marina Wheeler KC is a barrister, mediator and writer. Marina has a broad practice in public and human rights law with a special focus on detention, mental health and national security issues. The reconfiguration of hospital services has also featured heavily in Marina’s public law caseload, allowing her to develop expertise in the requirements of a fair consultation and application of the Public Sector Equality Duty. In addition to employment and public law work, Marina also undertakes complex family law cases, usually in the field of child protection and often involving a human rights or cross-border element.
Marina recently returned to practice following the publication of her historical family memoir, The Lost Homestead. She writes, and commentates, regularly about legal issues.
