Lady Hale appears on Desert Island Discs
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Lady Hale
Former UK Supreme Court president Lady Hale has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs.
Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, is a former judge who served as the first female president of the Supreme Court. In 2019 she announced the court’s judgement that the prorogation of Parliament was “unlawful, void and of no effect”.
The twinkling spider brooch she wore that day caused a sensation and set social media aflame. She was the first woman and the youngest person to be appointed to the Law Commission and in 2004 became the UK’s first woman law lord.
Lady Hale was born in Yorkshire and read law at the University of Cambridge where she graduated top of her class. She spent almost 20 years in academia and also practised as a barrister. Later at the Law Commission she led the work on what became the 1989 Children Act.
She retired as a justice in January 2020.
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