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JUSTICE Annual Lecture
Good afternoon,

Join us at this year's annual Tom Sargant Memorial Lecture, taking place at 6:30pm on 10 November via Zoom. Tickets are free, and we would love to see you there.
This year’s speaker will be Dame Vera Baird DBE QC , with a lecture titled From Bystander to Participant? Victims and Witnesses in the Criminal Justice System.

Appointed on 24 June 2019 for a three-year term, Dame Vera is responsible for championing the interests of crime victims and witnesses and reviewing the operation of the Victims Code of Practice (the Code).

She previously spent much of her working life as a criminal barrister. She was called to the Bar in 1975 and took silk in 2000. She served as Labour MP for Redcar from 2001 to 2010. She was a Government Minister from 2006 to 2010 and Solicitor General from 2007 to 2010 – the House of Common’s most senior law officer. As Solicitor General she was closely involved in criminal justice policy and legislation and is particularly proud of her role in taking the Equalities Act 2010 through its House of Commons stages. In 2017 she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to women and equality.
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Best wishes,
Maddy Breen
Membership and Communications Coordinator

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