Shami Chakrabarti

Last updated

Martyn Hopper
​
​
(m. 1995;div. 2014)​
The Right Honourable
The Baroness Chakrabarti
CBE PC
Official portrait of Baroness Chakrabarti crop 2.jpg
Official portrait, 2018
Shadow Attorney General
In office
6 October 2016 –6 April 2020
Children1
Residence(s) Lambeth, South London, England, UK
Alma mater London School of Economics (LLB)
Chakrabarti's voice
Desert Island Discs , 2 November 2008 [2]

SharmishtaChakrabarti, Baroness Chakrabarti CBE PC (born 16 June 1969) is a British politician, barrister, and human rights activist. A member of the Labour Party, she served as the director of Liberty, a major advocacy group which promotes civil liberties and human rights, from 2003 to 2016. From 2016 to 2020, she served as Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales.

Contents

Chakrabarti was born in the London Borough of Harrow, and studied law at the London School of Economics. After graduating, she was called to the Bar and then worked as an in-house legal counsel for the Home Office. When she was the director of Liberty, she campaigned against what Liberty considered "excessive" anti-terror legislation. In this role, she frequently contributed to BBC Radio 4 and various newspapers, and was described in The Times as "probably the most effective public affairs lobbyist of the past 20 years". She was one of the panel members of the Leveson Inquiry into press standards throughout 2011 and 2012. Between 2014 and 2017, she served as Chancellor of the University of Essex.

In August 2016, Chakrabarti was made a life peer in the Prime Minister's Resignation Honours.

Early life

Chakrabarti was born to Bengali Indian parents in the suburb of Kenton in the London Borough of Harrow. Her father, a bookkeeper, has been cited by Chakrabarti as an influence on her gaining an interest in civil liberties. She attended Bentley Wood High School, a girls' comprehensive school, then Harrow Weald Sixth Form College. [3] She was a member of the SDP. [4] [5]

Both her parents were educated in Roman Catholic schools in Calcutta, while she herself attended a Baptist Sunday school as a child. In 2007, she broadcast a Lent talk for BBC Radio 4. [3]

She studied law at the London School of Economics, at one point acting as a research assistant to Leonard Leigh, who wrote a paper on the British approach to terrorism and extradition; the paper was finally published in 1997. [6] After graduating with an LLB degree in 1991, [7] Chakrabarti was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1994. [8] In 1996, she started working as a barrister for the Home Office.

Liberty

Chakrabarti in 2014 Shami Chakrabarti, Southbank Centre, 2014.jpg
Chakrabarti in 2014

After working as in-house counsel, Chakrabarti was appointed director of Liberty in 2003. As director, she campaigned against what the pressure group saw as the "excessive" anti-terrorist measures that followed the September 11 attacks in the United States, such as the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 (ATCSA). The organisation is a prominent opponent of recent counter-terrorism legislation. [9]

Chakrabarti is a frequent contributor to BBC Radio and TV and various newspapers on the topic of human rights and civil liberties. The Observer wrote that she puts in "seemingly endless appearances on Question Time and the rolling news bulletins". [10] She was also described by David Aaronovitch in The Times as "probably the most effective public affairs lobbyist of the past 20 years". [11]

In December 2005, the BBC Radio 4 Today programme ran a poll of listeners to establish "who runs Britain." After many hours of debate, Today placed Chakrabarti on the shortlist of ten people "who may run Britain." [12]

She was shortlisted in the Channel 4 Political Awards 2006 for the "Most Inspiring Political Figure" award. It was voted for by the public and she came second to Jamie Oliver, above Tony Blair, David Cameron, George Galloway and Bob Geldof. [13]

In 2009, Shami Chakrabarti called Prevent the "biggest spying operation in Britain in modern times". [14]

Chakrabarti stepped down as the director of Liberty on 31 March 2016. [15] [16] Martha Spurrier was announced as her successor. [17]

Andy Burnham

In June 2008, Andy Burnham, the British Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, made what Chakrabarti claimed were "insinuations" in an interview in Progress magazine at Shadow Home Secretary David Davis's resignation over the 42-day detention for terror suspects. Davis, a Conservative MP, was said by Burnham to have had "late-night, hand-wringing, heart-melting phone calls with Shami Chakrabarti." Chakrabarti received an apology from Burnham for his "innuendo and attempted character assassination". [18] [19]

Damian Green

On 18 April 2009, it was reported in The Times and The Daily Telegraph that police officers who raided the parliamentary office of the Conservative frontbencher Damian Green and arrested him as part of an inquiry into the leaking of Home Office documents had searched through e-mails and computer documents going back a number of years, using Chakrabarti's name as one of the keywords. The Times reported her as saying that she believed the action of Scotland Yard's anti-terror squad "raises very serious questions about just how politicised, even McCarthyite, this operation was." [20] [21]

Phil Shiner

Phil Shiner is a British former human rights solicitor and was Head of Strategic Litigation at Public Interest Lawyers (International) from 2014 until the firm's closure in August 2016, when he was struck off the roll of solicitors in England and Wales over misconduct relating to false abuse claims against British troops. [22] Shiner's disgrace resulted in criticism by former army officers of Chakrabarti and her support for Shiner.

Johnny Mercer MP, a retired Army captain, chided Chakrabarti for her "almost child-like understanding of military operations" and for "trying to retrospectively apply European Human Rights Law to the battlefield". Richard Kemp, a retired Army colonel and commander of the first Task Force Helmand in Afghanistan in 2003, accused Chakrabarti of being "one of [Shiner's] greatest supporters". She said that she had been saddened by Shiner's downfall and had said that, before "losing his way", he had "given good service to the public" and "did some very good work that has been upheld by a judicial inquiry". [23]

London School of Economics

When the London School of Economics accepted a £1.5 million donation from Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Chakrabarti was on the governing board of the institution. Chakrabarti stated that she did not "attend the 2009 Council meeting which approved a donation to the school from Saif Gaddafi's Foundation" and that she "only subsequently raised concerns about links with Mr Gaddafi, given his father's appalling regime." She went on to state that she did not think "the decision in question resulted from anything other than a naive assessment, made in good faith, of the democratic reforming ambitions of the dictator's son." [24]

Howard Davies, LSE Director at the time, resigned over the issue, citing "personal error of judgement." [25] Chakrabarti was accused of hypocrisy by the Student Rights project of the Henry Jackson Society [26] as being "the director of a human rights group while legitimizing murderous regimes" as a governor of the LSE and they called for her (and others) to resign from the LSE. [27] Anthony Glees, director of Buckingham University's Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies, also said Chakrabarti should resign. [28]

On 9 December 2011, Chakrabarti wrote to the Metropolitan Police asking them to investigate the legality of the donations. [29] Chakrabarti admitted to feeling "bucketfuls" of embarrassment and shame about the affair and in April 2013 her spokesman confirmed that she had severed all ties with the LSE. [30]

Leveson Inquiry

In July 2011, Chakrabarti was announced as one of the panel members of the Leveson Inquiry, a judicial inquiry into phone hacking in the UK. Chakrabarti described her invitation onto the Inquiry as "a daunting privilege" and said it reflected Liberty's "belief in an appropriate balance between personal privacy and media freedom and above all in the Rule of law". [31]

On behalf of Liberty, Chakrabarti welcomed the principal recommendation of a more robust and independent press self-regulator, but said Liberty would be unable to support the Report's last-resort alternative of compulsory statutory regulation. [32]

She was one of two panel members to waive their right to claim fees or expenses for the duration of the inquiry. [33]

Labour Party

Labour Party inquiry

Following her appointment in April 2016 as chair of an inquiry into antisemitism and other forms of racism in the Labour Party, Chakrabarti announced that she had joined the party in order to gain members' trust and confidence, and expressed confidence that this would not compromise her independence. [34] Chakrabarti criticised the Conservative Party for not conducting their own inquiry into Islamophobia, following allegations from Sayeeda Warsi in London's 2016 mayoral election against Sadiq Khan. [35] The Chakrabarti Inquiry report was published in June 2016 and concluded that Labour was "not overrun by anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, or other forms of racism," but that there was an "occasionally toxic atmosphere". [36]

Jeremy Corbyn announced her as the only Labour appointment to the House of Lords in August 2016. This was a necessary step to her subsequent appointment as Shadow Attorney General. However, some (including Labour MPs Tom Watson and Wes Streeting) saw this as creating the potential for bias in what should have been an independent inquiry. [37] When asked about the appointment, a spokesman for Corbyn said that Chakrabarti was "an ideal appointment to the Lords". [38]

Labour peerage and shadow cabinet

On 6 September 2016, she was created a life peer as Baroness Chakrabarti, of Kennington in the London Borough of Lambeth. [39] The following month, she was appointed Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales to the Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn.

Anglo-American relations

Chakrabarti is an alumna of the British-American Project, [40] [41] and has been a governor of the Ditchley Foundation. [10] [42]

Personal life

Chakrabarti was married to Martyn Hopper, a litigation lawyer, from 1995 until they divorced in 2014. [3]

She opposes grammar schools on the grounds of social divisiveness and because she says they enforce segregation. [10] [43] [44] Her son was a former pupil of Dulwich College, a fee-paying private school, leading some to attack her views on education as hypocritical. [45] [46] [47]

Chakrabarti lives in Lambeth, South London. [48] She identifies as a feminist. [49] [50] Her favourite novel is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. [51]

Chakrabarti was portrayed by Indira Varma in the 2019 film Official Secrets .

Awards and honours

Chakrabarti is a member of the Foundation for Information Policy Research advisory council. [52]

She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2007 Queen's Birthday Honours. [53]

In 2011, she was awarded the President's Medal by the British Academy. [54]

She was one of eight Olympic Flag carriers at the London 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony (the announcer incorrectly described her as "the founder of Liberty"). [55] She was assessed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom in 2013 by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4, [56] and in 2014 she was included in The Sunday Times 's "100 Makers of the 21st Century" list. [57] [58]

In May 2018, it was announced that Chakrabarti was to be sworn of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom. [59] This usually allows the style "The Right Honourable", however, as a peer, she is already styled as such and therefore uses the post-nominal "PC".

Scholastic

University degrees
LocationDateSchoolDegree
Flag of England.svg England1994 London School of Economics Bachelor of Laws (LLB) [60]
Chancellor, visitor, governor, and fellowships
LocationDateSchoolPosition
Flag of England.svg England2006 –2015 Oxford Brookes University Chancellor [61]
Flag of England.svg England7 November 2006 – Middle Temple Master of the Bench [62]
Flag of England.svg England2007 – Goldsmiths, University of London Honorary Fellowship [63] [64]
Flag of England.svg EnglandSeptember 2014 –July 2017 University of Essex Chancellor [65] [66]
Flag of England.svg England2014 – University of Manchester Honorary Law Professorship [67]
Flag of England.svg England Nuffield College, Oxford Visiting Fellowship
Flag of England.svg England Mansfield College, Oxford Honorary Fellowship
Flag of England.svg England –April 2013 London School of Economics Governor
Flag of England.svg England2016 – Cumberland Lodge Visiting Fellowship [68]
Flag of England.svg England2 March 2017 – Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge Honorary Fellowship [69]
Flag of England.svg England1 February 2018 – University of Bristol Honorary Law Professorship [70]
Honorary degrees
LocationDateSchoolDegree
Flag of England.svg England19 July 2005 Loughborough University Doctor of Letters (DLitt) [71]
Flag of England.svg England2006 University of Roehampton Doctorate [72]
Flag of England.svg England2006 Sheffield Hallam University Doctor of the University (DUniv) [73]
Flag of England.svg England2007 Staffordshire University Doctor of the University (DUniv) [74]
Flag of England.svg England2007 University of East Anglia Doctor of Laws (LLD) [75]
Flag of England.svg EnglandJuly 2007 University of Hull Doctorate [76]
Flag of England.svg England25 July 2008 University of Sussex Doctor of Laws (LLD) [77]
Flag of England.svg England1 May 2009 Open University Doctor of the University (DUniv) [78]
Flag of England.svg England15 July 2010 University of Exeter Doctor of Laws (LLD) [79] [80]
Flag of England.svg England21 July 2010 University of Southampton Doctor of Letters (DLitt) [81] [82]
Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Wales13 July 2011 University of Glamorgan Doctor of the University (DUniv) [ dead link ] [83] [84] [85] [86] [87]
Flag of England.svg England18 July 2011 Middlesex University Doctorate [88]
Flag of England.svg England4 December 2012 Newcastle University Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) [89] [90]
Flag of England.svg England2013 York St John University Doctor of Laws (LLD) [91]
Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Wales13 July 2015 Cardiff Metropolitan University Doctor of the University (DUniv) [92]
Flag of England.svg England4 September 2015 Oxford Brookes University Doctor of the University (DUniv) [61] [93] [94]
Flag of England.svg England2015 Brunel University London Doctor of Letters (DLitt) [95]
Flag of England.svg England9 December 2016 University of London Doctor of Laws (LLD) [96]

On Liberty

On Liberty , Chakrabarti's first book, was published by Allen Lane in 2014. [97] In November 2015, a settlement was announced of a High Court libel case brought by Martin Hemming, formerly the Legal Adviser to the Ministry of Defence, concerning false allegations made by Chakrabarti. The publishers apologised for the "hurt and distress caused" by the allegations, confirmed they were "without foundation", and agreed to pay Hemming damages and legal costs. [98] [99]

Bibliography

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Estelle Morris</span> British Labour politician, life peer

Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley,, is a British politician and life peer who served as Secretary of State for Education and Skills from 2001 to 2002. A member of the Labour Party, she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Yardley from 1992 to 2005.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Oxford Brookes University</span> Public university in Oxford, England

Oxford Brookes University is a public university in Oxford, England. It is a new university, having received university status through the Further and Higher Education Act 1992. The university was named after its first principal, John Henry Brookes, who played a major role in the development of the institution.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws</span> Scottish barrister, broadcaster, and politician (born 1950)

Helena Ann Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws, is a Scottish barrister, broadcaster, and Labour member of the House of Lords. She was Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford, from 2011 to 2018. A Bencher of Gray's Inn, an Honorary Writer to the Signet and the recipient of 42 Honorary Degrees from many universities including those of Glasgow and Edinburgh in recognition of work on women and the law and on widening participation in higher education. She is President of Justice, the law reform think tank, and is also director of the International Bar Association's Institute of Human Rights.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alex Carlile, Baron Carlile of Berriew</span> British barrister and politician (born 1948)

Alexander Charles Carlile, Baron Carlile of Berriew, is a British barrister and crossbench member of the House of Lords. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Montgomeryshire from 1983 to 1997.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Liberty (advocacy group)</span> UK advocacy group and membership organisation

Liberty, formerly, and still formally, called the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL), is an advocacy group and membership organisation based in the United Kingdom, which challenges unjust laws, protects civil liberties and promotes human rights. It does this through the courts, in Parliament and in the wider community. Liberty also aims to engender a "rights culture" within British society. The NCCL was founded in 1934 by Ronald Kidd and Sylvia Crowther-Smith, motivated by their humanist convictions.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Claude Moraes</span> British Labour politician and campaigner (born 1965)

Claude Ajit Moraes is a British Labour Party politician and campaigner, who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for London between 1999 and the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU on 31 January 2020. He was chair of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee, deputy leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party and vice-president of the Socialists and Democrats Group in the European Parliament.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Katherine Grainger</span> Scottish rower (born 1975)

Dame Katherine Jane Grainger is a Scottish former rower and current Chair of UK Sport. She is a 2012 Summer Olympics gold medallist, four-time Olympic silver medallist and six-time World Champion for Great Britain. She served as Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University between 2015 and 2020 and is currently Chancellor of the University of Glasgow.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi</span> British-Pakistani lawyer and politician

Sayeeda Hussain Warsi, Baroness Warsi, is a British lawyer, politician, and member of the House of Lords who served as co-chairwoman of the Conservative Party from 2010 to 2012. She served in the Cameron–Clegg coalition, first as the Minister without portfolio between 2010 and 2012, then as the Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and as the Minister of State for Faith and Communities, until her resignation citing her disagreement with the Government's policy relating to the Israel–Gaza conflict in August 2014. In September 2024 Baroness Warsi resigned the Whip and left the Conservative Party.

Reeta Chakrabarti is a British journalist, newsreader and correspondent for BBC News. She is known for presenting BBC News at One, BBC News at Six, BBC News at Ten and BBC Weekend News, and presenting regularly on the BBC News Channel and occasionally BBC World News.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sigrid Rausing</span> Swedish philanthropist, anthropologist and publisher (born 1962)

Sigrid Maria Elisabet Rausing is a Swedish philanthropist, anthropologist and publisher. She is the founder of the Sigrid Rausing Trust, one of the United Kingdom's largest philanthropic foundations, and owner of Granta magazine and Granta Books.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon</span> British Labour politician (born 1955)

Janet Anne Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon,, is a British Labour Co-operative Party politician. Royall was appointed to the House of Lords in 2004, having stood unsuccessfully to be MEP for The Cotswolds and MP for Ogmore. She was Leader of the House of Lords for the last eighteen months of Gordon Brown's premiership. Royall currently serves as the Principal of Somerville College, Oxford; it was announced that she would be standing down from that role at the end of the 2024/25 academic year at the age of 70.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Parry Mitchell, Baron Mitchell</span>

Parry Andrew Mitchell, Baron Mitchell is a British businessman and Labour member of the House of Lords. On 10 May 2000, Mitchell was created a life peer as Baron Mitchell, of Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden, and introduced in the House of Lords on 24 May 2000. He sat on the Labour benches until he resigned from the party in September 2016. He rejoined the party in June 2020.

The LSE–Gaddafi affair was a scandal in the United Kingdom that occurred as a result of relationship that existed between the London School of Economics (LSE) and the Libyan government and its leader Muammar Gaddafi and his son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Doreen Lawrence</span> British Jamaican activist and politician (born 1952)

Doreen Delceita Lawrence, Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon, is a British Jamaican campaigner and the mother of Stephen Lawrence, a black British teenager who was murdered in a racist attack in South East London in 1993. She promoted reforms of the police service and founded the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust. She was appointed to the Order of the British Empire for services to community relations in 2003, and was created a life peer in 2013.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Martha Spurrier</span> British barrister, human rights campaigner, former director of Liberty (born 1986)

Martha Spurrier is a British barrister and human rights campaigner. She was the director of the advocacy group Liberty from 2016 to 2024.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Campaign Against Antisemitism</span> British non-governmental organisation

Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) is a British non-governmental organisation established in August 2014 by members of the Anglo-Jewish community. It conducts litigation, runs awareness-raising campaigns, organises rallies and petitions, provides education on antisemitism and publishes research.

The Chakrabarti Inquiry was a 2016 investigation into allegations of antisemitism and other forms of racism in the United Kingdom's Labour Party. Chaired by barrister Shami Chakrabarti, the inquiry was launched following comments made by two high-profile Labour figures, Naz Shah and Ken Livingstone, that some asserted were antisemitic in nature; Shah, a Member of parliament, and Livingstone, the former mayor of London, were subsequently suspended from the party pending an investigation. The inquiry presented its findings on 30 June 2016, stating that although antisemitism and other types of racism were not endemic within Labour, there was an "occasionally toxic atmosphere".

Marc Wadsworth is a British black rights campaigner, broadcast and print journalist and BBC filmmaker and radio producer. He founded the Anti-Racist Alliance in 1991 and two years later, also helped set up the justice campaign for murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence. Wadsworth launched an early citizen-journalism news portal, The-Latest.com. In 2008, Wadsworth's reporting triggered the resignation of Mayor of London Boris Johnson's spokesman.

Philip Joseph Shiner is a British former human rights solicitor. He was struck off the roll of solicitors in England and Wales in 2017 over misconduct relating to false abuse claims against British troops. He was Head of Strategic Litigation at Public Interest Lawyers (International) from 2014 until the firm's closure on 31 August 2016. He had previously been Principal at Public Interest Lawyers Ltd from 1999 to 2014.

Rosa Anne Freedman, who has written as Rosa Davis, is a British professor of law, conflict, and global development at the University of Reading. Her principal area of research is the activities of the United Nations as they relate to human rights. She has given evidence before the Foreign Affairs Select Committee of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom about the human rights work of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and to the Scottish Government relating to gender questions on the national census.

References

  1. ↑ "Anti-Semitism inquiry leader Shami Chakrabarti joins Labour". BBC News. 16 May 2016. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  2. ↑ "Shami Chakrabarti". Desert Island Discs. 2 November 2008. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 Vallely, Paul (21 June 2008). "Shami Chakrabarti: Heart of the matter – Profiles, People – The Independent". The Independent. London.
  4. ↑ "Civil Liberty – Good riddance Shami". www.civilliberty.org.uk. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  5. ↑ "Interview: Shami Chakrabarti – Civil Service World". www.civilserviceworld.com. 24 June 2020.
  6. ↑ Leigh, Leonard, "Terrorism and extradition: a British perspective" in "Terrorism and International Law", Routledge, 1997, pp. 166–184.
  7. ↑ Notable alumni – in: "Alumni Guide" of the LSE
  8. ↑ "Calls to the Bar", The Independent, 14 October 1994.
  9. ↑ Chakrabarti, Shami (20 May 2007). "So much freedom lost and on my watch". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 23 May 2010.
  10. 1 2 3 Doward, Jamie (22 June 2008). "Profile: Shami Chakrabarti, the undaunted freedom fighter". The Guardian. London.
  11. ↑ Aaronovitch, David (26 February 2008). "Ignore the paranoid fantasists". The Times online. Retrieved 5 August 2016.(subscription may be required or content may be available in libraries)
  12. ↑ "Who runs Britain?". Today Programme. BBC Radio 4. 2005. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  13. ↑ Channel 4 Political Awards 2007. Channel4.com. Retrieved on 30 November 2008
  14. ↑ Ware, John (24 October 2016). "Are we losing the war on home-grown terror". Standpoint . Archived from the original on 26 January 2021.
  15. ↑ Bowcott, Owen (14 January 2016). "Shami Chakrabarti steps down as Liberty director after 12 years". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
  16. ↑ Morris, Nigel (31 March 2016). "Martha Spurrier: Equal rights barrister to succeed Shami Chakrabarti as director of Liberty campaign group". The Independent. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
  17. ↑ Bowcott, Owen (31 March 2016). "Liberty names barrister Martha Spurrier as new director". The Guardian.
  18. ↑ Wintour, Patrick (20 June 2008). "Chakrabarti threatens to sue over Minister's jibe". The Guardian.
  19. ↑ Winnett, Robert (21 June 2008). "Andy Burnham writes letter of apology to Shami Chakrabarti for David Davis comments". Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 13 August 2010.
  20. ↑ Sylvester, Rachel; Thomson, Alice (18 April 2009). "Shami Chakrabarti was target in police search". The Times . London. Retrieved 20 October 2009.[ dead link ]
  21. ↑ Edwards, Richard; Prince, Rosa; Wardrop, Murray (18 April 2009). "Damian Green raid: police search emails for Liberty head". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 21 April 2009. Retrieved 20 October 2009.
  22. ↑ "Iraq lawyer Phil Shiner struck off over misconduct". BBC News . 2 February 2017. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  23. ↑ Farmer, Ben (12 February 2017). "Disgraced Iraq lawyer Phil Shiner 'did good work, but lost his way' says Labour Baroness Chakrabarti". The Sunday Telegraph . Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  24. ↑ "Liberty's Director and the LSE" Archived 27 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine , Liberty website, 11 March 2011
  25. ↑ Vasagar, Jeevan; Syal, Rajeev (4 March 2011). "Howard Davies insists Gaddafi gifts did not undermine LSE's independence". The Guardian. London.
  26. ↑ Aked, Hilary (17 December 2013). "Ironically Named 'Student Rights' Group Exposed by Actual Students". Huffington Post. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
  27. ↑ John Paul "LSE head resigns over Libya link", Jerusalem Post, 6 March 2011.
  28. ↑ Davis, Anna, Peter Dominiczak and Joshua Neicho, "LSE chief: It was not a mistake for us to train Libyan officials", Evening Standard, 4 March 2011. Archived 7 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine .
  29. ↑ Kerbaj, Richard (11 December 2011). "Yard is called in over LSE's £1.5m from Gadaffi son". Sunday Times. Archived from the original on 28 October 2014.
  30. ↑ Walker, Tim (16 April 2013). "Shami Chakrabarti disowns the LSE". Daily Telegraph.
  31. ↑ "Phone hacking: David Cameron names inquiry panel". Daily Telegraph. 20 July 2011.
  32. ↑ "Liberty responds to Leveson Report". liberty-human-rights.org.uk.[ permanent dead link ]
  33. ↑ "Leveson Inquiry cost £1.9m in first six months". Press Gazette. Archived from the original on 18 October 2014.
  34. ↑ "Anti-Semitism inquiry leader Shami Chakrabarti joins Labour". BBC News. 16 May 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  35. ↑ Waugh, Paul (16 May 2016). "Chakrabarti Hits Out At Tory 'Islamophobia'". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  36. ↑ Elgot, Jessica; Rajeev Syal (20 July 2016). "Shami Chakrabarti declines to deny offer of peerage by Labour". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
  37. ↑ Mason, Rowena (4 August 2016). "Corbyn's offer of peerage to Shami Chakrabarti causes Labour tensions". TheGuardian.com .
  38. ↑ Dysch, Marcus (4 August 2016). "Anger as Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn hands Shami Chakrabarti a peerage" . Retrieved 7 February 2020.
  39. ↑ "No. 61701". The London Gazette . 12 September 2016. p. 19332.
  40. ↑ "This Year". British-American Project. 2007. Archived from the original on 7 November 2007. Shami Chakrabati of Liberty (and BAP member) will chair a session of BAP members involved in faith
  41. ↑ Alibhai-Brown, Yasmin (17 March 2008). "This unhealthy strain of left-wing McCarthyism". The Independent . London.
  42. ↑ "The Governors". Ditchley Foundation. Archived from the original on 26 September 2006.
  43. ↑ Ryan, Frances (10 October 2016). "Shami Chakrabarti has undermined the education system she argues for". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
  44. ↑ McQuillan, Rebecca (7 March 2016). "What will Shami Chakrabarti do next? Interview with the outgoing director of Liberty". The Herald . Retrieved 17 October 2016.
  45. ↑ Ryan, Frances (10 October 2016). "Shami Chakrabarti has undermined the education system she argues for | Frances Ryan". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 12 August 2019.
  46. ↑ Connolly, Shaun (9 October 2016). "Shami Chakrabarti defends sending son to £18,000 private school after criticising selective education". The Independent. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
  47. ↑ Crampton, Caroline (20 October 2016). "Shami Chakrabarti's fall from grace: how a liberal hero lost her reputation". www.newstatesman.com. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
  48. ↑ BBC. "London People: Shami Chakrabarti".
  49. ↑ Zeisler, Andi (3 May 2016). We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement. PublicAffairs. ISBN   9781610395908 – via Google Books.
  50. ↑ Star, Morning (7 March 2015). "IWD: I'm proud to identify myself as a feminist – and you should be too". Morning Star. Retrieved 24 November 2023.
  51. ↑ Albiston, Isabel (24 March 2007). "The world of..." The Telegraph. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
  52. ↑ "FIPR People". Foundation for Information Policy Research. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  53. ↑ "No. 58358". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 June 2007. p. 7.
  54. ↑ "The British Academy President's Medal". British Academy. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
  55. ↑ "Shami". Spectator Blogs.
  56. ↑ "BBC Radio 4 – Woman's Hour – The Power List 2013". BBC.
  57. ↑ "Britain's movers and shakers – The Sunday Times". thesundaytimes.co.uk. Archived from the original on 16 March 2014. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
  58. ↑ "PAUL STUART / THOMAS HEATHERWICK / THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE". twentytwentyagency.com.
  59. ↑ "Queen confers Peerages". gov.uk. 18 May 2018. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
  60. ↑ "Shami Chakrabarti - Alumni profiles - Student and staff profiles - Meet our students, staff and alumni - Life at LSE - Home". www.lse.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 8 July 2018. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  61. 1 2 "Shami Chakrabarti and Professor Janet Beer get honorary degrees". Oxford Mail. 5 September 2015. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  62. ↑ "Middle Temple". www.middletemple.org.uk. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  63. ↑ "Honorands A-F". Goldsmiths, University of London.
  64. ↑ "Shami Chakrabati". Goldsmiths, University of London.
  65. ↑ "University of Essex - Farewell and thank you to our Chancellor, Baroness Shami Chakrabarti « Vice-Chancellor". blogs.essex.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 22 September 2018. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  66. ↑ Lodge, Will (7 October 2016). "Baroness Shami Chakrabarti steps down from role as University of Essex chancellor" . Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  67. ↑ "Human rights campaigner joins University". University of Manchester. 10 February 2014. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
  68. ↑ "Baroness Shami Chakrabarti - Cumberland Lodge". www.cumberlandlodge.ac.uk.
  69. ↑ "Shami Chakrabarti made Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish". The Cambridge Student. 1 March 2017.
  70. ↑ Bristol, University of. "2018: Shami Chakrabarti Honorary Professor of Law - University of Bristol Law School - University of Bristol". www.bristol.ac.uk.
  71. ↑ "Honorary Degree Orations". www.lboro.ac.uk.
  72. ↑ "Honorary Degrees". Roehampton University.
  73. ↑ "Shami Chakrabati - Sheffield Hallam University". www.shu.ac.uk.
  74. ↑ University, Staffordshire. "Full Honorary Graduates List". Staffordshire University. Archived from the original on 22 November 2018. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  75. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 22 November 2018. Retrieved 21 November 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  76. ↑ "Annual Report 2006/07" (PDF). University of Hull.
  77. ↑ "Lord Attenborough bows out at Summer Graduation". www.sussex.ac.uk. 24 July 2008. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  78. ↑ "Honorary graduate cumulative list(1)" (PDF). Open University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 February 2018.
  79. ↑ Robinson, Debbie. "University of Exeter". www.exeter.ac.uk.
  80. ↑ "Previous honorary graduates - Honorary graduates - University of Exeter". www.exeter.ac.uk.
  81. ↑ "Distinguished Achievements With Honorary Degree Awards - University of Southampton". www.southampton.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  82. ↑ "UK to honour Shami Chakrabarti with honorary degree". The Times of India. 8 July 2010. Retrieved 21 July 2010.
  83. ↑ Freedom to think. "Watch Shami Chakrabati accept her honorary doctorate". University of Glamorgan, UK. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011.
  84. ↑ USW GlamorganUniversity (15 July 2011). "Shami Chakrabati accepts her Honorary Doctorate of the University of Glamorgan". Archived from the original on 15 December 2021. Retrieved 26 October 2018– via YouTube.
  85. ↑ "University of Glamorgan honours contributions to public life, communities, science, literature, and sport, News Centre". University of Glamorgan. 28 June 2011. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011.
  86. ↑ WalesOnline (6 July 2011). "University View: Julie Lydon, University of Glamorgan vice-chancellor". walesonline.
  87. ↑ WalesOnline (6 July 2011). "Leading biochemist among those honoured by university". walesonline.
  88. ↑ "Shami Chakrabarti presented with honorary doctorate | Middlesex University London". 18 July 2011. Archived from the original on 27 January 2016.
  89. ↑ "Hon Degrees Awarded with Themes 2018" (PDF). Newcastle University. 26 June 2018.
  90. ↑ "Shami Chakrabarti" (PDF). 4 December 2012.
  91. ↑ "Honorary Graduates 2013". York St John University.
  92. ↑ "Cardiff Met News Cardiff Met honours leading figures with Honorary Fellowships and Doctorates". www.cardiffmet.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 15 April 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2022.
  93. ↑ "Shami Chakrabarti CBE and Professor Janet Beer to receive honorary degrees - Oxford Brookes University". www.brookes.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  94. ↑ "List by year - Oxford Brookes University". www.brookes.ac.uk.
  95. ↑ "Honorary Graduates - Brunel University London". www.brunel.ac.uk.
  96. ↑ "School of Advanced Study honour leading human rights campaigner". School of Advanced Study. 23 September 2016.
  97. ↑ "Liberty". liberty-human-rights.org.uk.
  98. ↑ Harley, Nicola (4 November 2015). "Publisher pays out over Army abuse claims by rights activist". Daily Telegraph.
  99. ↑ "Former chief MoD legal adviser receives apology from Penguin Books". Solicitors Journal. 9 November 2015. Archived from the original on 6 October 2016. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
Non-profit organization positions
Preceded by
John Wadham
 Director of Liberty
2003–2016		Succeeded by
Academic offices
Preceded by Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University
2008–2015		Succeeded by
Preceded by Chancellor of the University of Essex
2014–2017		Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Shadow Attorney General
2016–2020		Succeeded by
Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom
Preceded by Ladies
Baroness Chakrabarti		Followed by
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.