The Rt Hon The Baroness Hallett DBE

The Rt Hon The Baroness Hallett DBE interviewed by Harini Iyengar 14 October 2013.

The Rt Hon The Baroness Hallett DBE was called to the Bar in 1972. Lady Hallett specialised in appeals in Criminal Law was appointed Queens Counsel in 1989. In 1993 she was elected a Bencher and Treasurer in 2011. In 1998 she was the first woman to Chair the Bar Council. Her achievements have been recognised elsewhere, she was made an Honorary Fellow of the Academy of Experts in 2017 and nominated for peerage in 2019 by the outgoing Prime Minster. In 2021 Lady Hallett began chairing the enquiry of the UK government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Harini Iyengar completed her Law Degree at Oxford in 1996 and was called in 1999. She practises from 11 King’s Bench Walk specialising in Employment, Public and Commercial Law. She was chosen to be one of 12 ‘amazing Brasenose College women’ out of 120 and her portrait currently hangs in the college.

The interview with Lady Hallett covers her experience of gender discrimination and sexual harassment, and being a mother while maintaining a career, but also managing to work through the difficulties to gain recognised promotions and roles and being a powerful woman in the sector.

The run time is 59 minutes and 14 seconds.

Catalogue Number AVR/8/2/16A-B