- Date
- 8 February 2027 / 5:30-7:30pm
- Venue
- Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
We're delighted to welcome you back to St Hilda's for our third annual Helen Grindrod Lecture, in honour of St Hilda’s alumna, the late Helen Grindrod QC (Pritchard, English, 1954). The lecture is made possible through the generous support of St Hilda’s Honorary Fellow, Dame Vera Baird DBE KC.
Join us on Monday 8 February 2027 at 5:30pm in the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building for a fascinating talk from guest speaker Harriet Wistrich.
Harriet's talk will be titled "Discrimination against women in homicide laws: time for change?"
Harriet is the CEO of Centre for Women’s Justice and a solicitor of 30 years' experience who worked for many years with renowned civil liberties firm, Birnberg Peirce Ltd. She is the winner of the Liberty Human Rights Lawyer of the Year award 2014, Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year 2018 for public law and Law Society Gazette personality of the year 2019. She has acted in many high-profile cases around violence against women, including on behalf of women who challenged the police and parole board in the John Worboys case, women deceived in relationships by undercover police officers and on behalf of women appealing murder convictions for killing abusive partners, most recently Sally Challen.
She is a founding member of the campaign group, Justice for Women and trustee of the charity, the Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize. She is also the author of ‘Sister in Law: Fighting for Justice in a System Designed by Men’, published in 2024, which describes a number of the key legal battles she has fought over the years.
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