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Dame Carolyn Paula Hamilton DBE (born November 1951) is a barrister who specialises in children's rights. She is also director of Coram Children's Legal Centre, an independent national charity dedicated to the promotion and implementation of children's rights based at the University of Essex. Hamilton has the position of professor at Essex.

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Early life and family

Carolyn Paula Hamilton was born in Hendon, London, in November 1951 [1] to David Hamilton (died 2007) and his wife Laura. She has a brother Alan S. Hamilton. Her father escaped Nazi Germany as a boy before the Second World War on the first Kindertransport ship to England [2] and subsequently made a fortune in real estate and fashion. In 2016, a dispute between Carolyn and her brother Alan over the division of their father's estate became the subject of a bitter court case. [3] [4]

Career

Hamilton is a barrister who specialises in children's rights. In 1995 [5] she was appointed director of Coram Children's Legal Centre, an independent national charity dedicated to the promotion and implementation of children's rights [6] based at the University of Essex where Hamilton is a member of the department of law. [7] She was a Consultant on Juvenile Justice to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2001-2003. She was the Child and Family Commissioner for the Legal Services Commission until December 2010. [8]

She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to children's rights. [9]

Selected publications

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  2. ↑ "1938: The year of fate" by Hermann Simon in Beate Meyer, Hermann Simon, & Chana Schütz (Eds.) Jews in Nazi Berlin: From Kristallnacht to Liberation , University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2009. pp. 15-16. ISBN   9780226521572
  3. ↑ Siblings in court battle over father’s £3.2m Holocaust fund. Frances Gibb, The Times , 24 February 2016. Retrieved 24 February 2016. (subscription required)
  4. ↑ Bitter inheritance feud over Nazi survivor's fortune sees son tell court father was tax avoider. Tom Morgan, The Telegraph , 23 February 2016. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  5. ↑ Interview with Carolyn Hamilton, The Children's Legal Centre. Archived 11 April 2021 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  6. ↑ Professor Carolyn Hamilton, Director of International Programmes and Research. Archived 20 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine Coram Children's Legal Centre. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  7. ↑ STAFF OF THE UNIT. Archived 20 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine The Children and Armed Conflict Unit. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  8. ↑ Carolyn Hamilton. Archived 2017-10-03 at the Wayback Machine 1 King's Bench Walk. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  9. ↑ "No. 61962". The London Gazette (Supplement). 17 June 2017. p. B7.
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