Baroness Helena Kennedy is a member of the World Bank Institute’s External Advisory Council and she is on the board of the British Museum.

She is an honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

In 1999 she was elected as a Member of the Paris-based Academie Universelle des Cultures. In 2004 she was awarded the highest Italian honour of Cavaliere di Gran Croce and in the same year she was elevated by the French Prime Minister to the rank of Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques. In 2005 she was elected to the Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

She is the Chair of Governors of the UK’s leading international college, Atlantic College. She is a Scottish Ambassador for the Hans Christian Andersen Foundation.

She has 25 honorary doctorates.

Over the years Helena Kennedy has presented many radio and television programmes, including Heart of the Matter, Raw Deal and the award winning Time, Gentlemen, Please, all for the BBC. With the producer/director Polly Bide she made the film Mother Behind Bars, which changed penal policy in women’s prisons. She was also the first female moderator of television’s Hypotheticals. In 1987, with the playwright Peter Flannery, she created the highly political drama series Blind Justice which took the lid off many of the legal scandals of the period.

Her award-winning book Eve was Framed on women and British justice has been fully updated and has recently been reissued in paperback. Her new book Just Law on the state of Britain today and the changing face of British justice has recently been published in paperback.