Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Shami Chakrabarti is among United Kingdom's top 10 powerful lawyers
Britain's foremost human rights advocate Shami Chakrabarti is among the top 10 most powerful lawyers in The Times' annual list of the Top 100 Club.This is another feather in the cap for Chakrabarti, who is already considered among the top 50 most powerful people in Britain. Knighted by the Queen for her contribution to law and human rights in 2007, she beat Tony Blair and David Cameron in a 2006 vote for Britain's most inspiring figure.
In 2005, she was on the BBC's shortlist of the 10 people who may run Britain.
A law graduate from the London School of Economics, she currently heads one of the world's best known human rights organizations, Liberty. She has recently been appointed as chancellor of Oxford Brookes University.
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