Baroness Helena Kennedy (QC) is a campaigning lawyer, acting for those who have little voice within the system, and seeking reform for those who do not get justice.

A practising barrister who is a member of the Doughty Street Chambers in London, she has been involved in many prominent cases. These include the Guildford Four appeal and the bombing of the Israeli embassy. Current cases are arising out of the new wave of terrorism, notably the TransAtlantic Airline Bomb Plot which finished very recently . She also undertakes judicial review, public inquiries and sex discrimination work.

She has acted for many battered women who have killed their husbands. As a life peer, she also participates in the House of Lords on issues concerned with human rights, civil liberties, social justice and culture.

Helena Kennedy chairs POWER2010, newly launched this September to to identify the five key reforms that will change the way we do politics in this country. The project has its roots in the Power Inquiry in 2005 - the biggest ever inquiry into the health of Britain's democracy.

Baroness Kennedy is on the board of the Independent newspaper and contributes to it, and also to Open Democracy; she is the author of a number of books including:
Eve Was Framed: Women and British justice (Vintage2004) how prejudice, privilege and misinformation affects women in their dealings with the law Just Law (Chatto & Windus 2003) the crisis in civil liberties.