Lady Justice Heather Hallett, vice president of the Court of Appeal, Criminal
Division, and the senior judicial lead on diversity, was nominated for a
crossbench peerage. Hallett LJ, who was called to the Bar in 1972 and took silk
in 1989, was chair of the Bar Council in 1998. She was appointed a High Court
judge a year later, and in 2011 acted as coroner at the inquest into the deaths
of the 52 victims of the 7 July 2005 London bombings.
Hallett LJ said: ‘I am delighted to be given the opportunity to continue in
public service after my retirement and relish the challenges ahead.’
Criminal practitioner Caroline Haughey QC, of Furnival Chambers, who wrote
an independent review of the Modern Slavery Act, was nominated for an OBE,
while opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn’s nominations included a peerage for
University College London Professor John Hendy QC, chair of the Institute of
Employment Rights.
