S P E A K E R S

Baroness Hale

Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, studied Law at Girton College Cambridge. She then went on to become a judge in the Family Division of the High Court of Justice and was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire and in 1999 became only the second woman to be appointed to the Court of Appeal. In 2004, she joined the House of Lords as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, becoming the only woman to have been appointed to that position. In 2017, Baroness Hale was then appointed to serve as the President of the Supreme Court, becoming the first woman to serve in the role.

Baroness Hale has had significant influence in the development of English law across a wide range of areas, having an impact on the lives of millions of women, men and children. Baroness Hale has ruled on many cases which form the foundations of the law tripos here at Cambridge University. For example, she was instrumental in the ruling on whether the government had the power by itself to invoke Article 50 of the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty.

Baroness Hale also has been the Honorary President of the Cambridge University Law Society since 2015.

Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College

Friday 3rd March, 12pm-1pm