Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws
The Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws LT KC
Labour
•House of Lords•ActiveMember since 27 October 1997
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Employment Rights Bill
18/05/2025 • Lords
May I just add to that? My concern is that my noble friend Lady Chakrabarti is right that, in law, one should not use contractual agreements to avoid ...
My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 101 in my name, in which I am joined, as we have heard, by the noble Baroness, Lady Kramer, but also by the noble ...
NHS: Single-sex Spaces for Staff
30/04/2025 • Lords
Colleagues, I apologise that I was a minute or two late. Unfortunately, I am disabled at the moment, and everything takes so much longer for me. As so...
Employment Rights Bill
27/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I, too, welcome the new colleagues into this House and wish them well in their work as Members. I also congratulate the Minister on her intr...
European Convention on Human Rights: 75th Anniversary
20/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I declare that I am a practitioner at the English Bar and the president of the council of Justice, a leading British law organisation. I am ...
G7
20/03/2025 • Lords
I co-chair the taskforce for the return of the children who have been taken into Russia. The evidence is really shocking and quite scandalous. It is i...
Church of Scotland (Lord High Commissioner) Bill
19/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, it is really heartwarming to hear such unanimity in support of the Bill, and I, like others, welcome it with all my heart. I too am a Cathol...
Media Freedom Coalition
17/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I chair the high-level legal panel which advises the international coalition of nations referred to by the noble Lord, Lord Ahmad. I thank t...
Palestine Statehood (Recognition) Bill [HL]
14/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I too pay tribute to the noble Baroness, Lady Northover, for this important debate.
As recently as July last year, our Secretary of State...
Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation
06/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I too am concerned that this is slipping down the legislative agenda, because this issue is serious. Whistleblowers in the Post Office scand...
Hong Kong Democracy Activists
06/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, the Joint Committee on Human Rights has been receiving evidence in relation to transnational repression. Is the Minister aware—it is widely ...
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