The Advisory Board will play a critical role the strategic development of the Centre over the next few years.
By Mr John Stevenson (Senior Communications Officer), Published
(From left to right): CJHR Advisory Board includes Hami Sabi, Lawyer, Sabi Association; Sir Geoffrey Nice, Barrister and Judge, Geoffrey Nice Foundation; Andrea Simon, Director, End Violence Against Women; Roma Hooper OBE, Chair, Clinks; Natalie Byrom, Director of Research, The Legal Education Foundation; Liz Hogarth OBE, Former Ministry of Justice Lead; Vian Dakhi, MP, Council of Representatives of Iraq; Nick Vetch CBE, Founder, Big Yellow Group; Dr Cassandra Wiener, Co-Director, CJHR; Baroness Helena Kennedy, Lawyer and Peer, House of Lords; Andrea Coomber, Director, Howard League for Penal Reform; Dr Gemma Birkett, Co-Director, CJHR; Professor Julian Roberts, Executive Director, Sentencing Academy; Anand Doobay, Partner and Lawyer; Boutique Law LLP; Richard Garside, Director, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies; Professor Eugene McLaughlin, Co-Director, CJHR, Dr Aldo Zammit Borda, Co-Director, CJHR.
On 17th July 2023, City, University of London’s Criminal Justice and Human Rights Centre (CJHRC) celebrated the official launch of its Advisory Board at the Old Sessions House in Clerkenwell, joined by a range of criminal justice academics, practitioners, judges, members of parliament, and policy makers.
The Advisory Board will play a critical role the strategic development of the Centre over the next few years; the Centre’s ongoing collaborative work in criminal justice research and reform is highly anticipated.
The CJHR Advisory Board comprises Hami Sabi, Lawyer, Sabi Association; Sir Geoffrey Nice, Barrister and Judge, Geoffrey Nice Foundation; Andrea Simon, Director, End Violence Against Women; Roma Hooper OBE, Chair, Clinks; Natalie Byrom, Director of Research, The Legal Education Foundation; Liz Hogarth OBE, Former Ministry of Justice Lead; Vian Dakhi, MP, Council of Representatives of Iraq; Nick Vetch CBE, Founder, Big Yellow Group; Dr Cassandra Wiener, Co-Director, CJHR; Baroness Helena Kennedy, Lawyer and Peer, House of Lords; Andrea Coomber, Director, Howard League for Penal Reform; Dr Gemma Birkett, Co-Director, CJHR; Professor Julian Roberts, Executive Director, Sentencing Academy; Anand Doobay, Partner and Lawyer; Boutique Law LLP; Richard Garside, Director, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies; Professor Eugene McLaughlin, Co-Director, CJHR, Dr Aldo Zammit Borda, Co-Director, CJHR.
Other CJHR Advisory Board members are: Rt Hon Sir David Hanson (former Minister in the Home Office and Ministry of Justice); Lord Fred Ponsonby (Labour frontbench spokesman in the House of Lords); Lord Alan Beith (House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee, former Chair of the House of Commons Justice Select Committee); and Lord John Thomas (former Lord Chief Justice).