Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal
Patricia Janet Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal, of Asthal in the County of Oxfordshire, PC, QC ( born August 19, 1955 in Dominica ) is a native of Dominica British lawyer and politician of the Labour Party, which since 1997 Life Peeress member of the House of Lords.
Life
Studies and legal career
Patricia Scotland, the immigrated in 1959 with her parents from Dominica to the United Kingdom, graduated after attending the Walthamstow School for Girls and the Mid Essex Technical College to study law at University College London ( UCL), which in 1976 with a Bachelor of Laws ( LL.B. ) graduated. According to their lawyer is admitted to the Bar Association ( Inns of Court ) from the Middle Temple in 1977, she began working as a lawyer and a lawyer also received approval for Antigua and Barbuda and Dominica. In 1991 she was appointed as the first black man to Kronanwältin and 1992, she was honored with the title Black Woman of the the Year.
In 1994, she joined as assistive rapporteur ( Assistant Recorder) in the Judicial Service of the Commissioner for England and Wales High Court of Justice and was also from 1994 to 1999 a member of the so-called Millennium Commission. Twenty years after her lawyer's approval, she was appointed a Bencher of the Law Society of the Middle Temple in 1997 and also one of the founding members of the Bar Association 1 Gray 's Inn Square, the head of it was at times.
Upper House Member and Minister of State
Was raised in the County of Oxfordshire in the peerage Patricia Scotland as Life Peeress with the title Baroness Scotland of Asthal, of Asthal By Letters Patent dated 30 October 1997. Shortly afterwards, was their introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords. In the upper house it belongs to the Group of the Labour Party.
In 1999 she recorded her first government post and was until 2001, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Commonwealth of Nations (Foreign and Commonwealth Office ). In addition, it was 2000, rapporteur and deputy judge in the Family Division ( Family Division ) of the High Court of Justice. After she was Privy Councillor in 2001 and was from 2001 to 2003 Parliamentary Secretary in the office of Lord Chancellor, she served between 2003 and 2007 as Minister of State at the Home Office (Home Office ). There she was initially responsible for the criminal justice system and legal forms, and then from 2005 to 2007 for the criminal justice system and dealing with offenders. During this time she was between 2002 and 2003 also deputy government representative at the European Constitutional Convention and was awarded the 2003 Konstantin Order.
Baroness Scotland, by the House Magazine and Channel 4 to the Upper House Member of the Year ( Peer of the Year ) was awarded in 2004, was also determined twice for parliamentarians of the year, once in 2004 by the Association of Political Studies and in 2005 by the magazine The Spectator.
Attorney General and Honors
On 28 June 2007, Baroness Scotland of Prime Minister Gordon Brown as successor to Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith to the Attorney General ( Attorney General ) for England, Wales and Northern Ireland appointed and these roles until the end of Brown's term of office on 11 May 2010, with led them to the reorganization of the office as Attorney General of Northern Ireland from 12 April to 11 May 2010, the newly created title Generaladvokatin ( Advocate General for Northern Ireland).
After the election defeat of the Labour Party at the general election on 6 May 2010, she was in the shadow cabinet of their party by 2011, " Shadow Attorney General " for England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Baroness Scotland, which specialized as a lawyer and in particular family law and children's rights was, at times Chairman of the Disciplinary Tribunal of the International Law Enforcement Academy ( ILEA ) and the Advisory Group of the Government for the Caribbean. Furthermore, she was temporarily a member of the Working Group of the House of Commons on the abduction of children, the Commission for Racial Equality, the Legal Advisory Board of the National Consumer Council and the Advisory Committee for mentally retarded offenders.
Furthermore, she was honorary president of the Law Association of Trinity Hall and Honorary Member ( Honorary Fellow ) of the Society of Advanced Legal Studies, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge and Cardiff University.
In addition, her honorary doctorates from the University of Westminster, University of Buckingham, University of Leicester, University of East London and the University of the West Indies was awarded. She is also a member of the Thomas More Society and The Lawyers' Christian Fellowship.