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		Profile of Vera Baird QC Vera Baird was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2000 and elected as MP for Redcar in 2001.
		Vera is currently a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee the Labour Party National Policy Forum and an officer of several All Party Parliamentary Groups including chair of the APPG Domestic Violence and the APPG for Survivors of Sexual Abuse.
		Vera graduated from Northumberland University in 1972 with a good law degree and was called to Gray’s Inn in 1975 becoming a Bencher of the Inn in 2004.
	www.womenbarristers.co.uk /verabaird.htm (568 words)

	Trident Ploughshares - Vera Baird to Represent Trident Trashers
		Trident Ploughshares - Vera Baird to Represent Trident Trashers
		Due to the early closure of a previous case, barrister Vera Baird has joined the legal team representing Rosie James and Rachel Wenham in their forthcoming trial at Lancaster Crown Court.
		Their defence was based on the argument that they had "lawful excuse"; the same defence will be presented by Vera Baird on behalf of Rosie James and Rachel Wenham - that they too had "lawful excuse" in their action which aimed to prevent the deployment of HMS Vengeance and Britain’s Trident nuclear warheads.
	tridentploughshares.org /article17 (426 words)

	Joint Committee on Human Rights - Minutes of Evidence
		Q3 Vera Baird: Defining bad character: "He has committed an offence", not one connected with the one with which he is charged, or "he is behaved, or is disposed to behave, in a way that, in the opinion of the court, might be viewed with disapproval by a reasonable person".
		Q4 Vera Baird: You are talking of the fair trial test, which is to be found in 85(3).
		Q9 Vera Baird: I do not want to get bogged down on this but the current situation is that what is admissible as bad character now is far narrower than will be admissible in 82.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/jt200203/jtselect/jtrights/118/3052202.htm (1450 words)

	Peace Tourism (June 2, 1999)
		Baird represented the six Irishmen who were brutally coerced to falsely confess to the 1974 IRA bombing of a Birmingham pub.
		Erik and I, with Lynn--herself having served over a year in prison for a Ploughshares action--watched as Vera diplomatically pushed the judge to reverse his ruling censoring any discussion that the possession (and deployment) of nuclear weapons was a "threat" and thereby illegal in accordance with the ICJ ruling.
		Vera Baird's response was to question this ruling every step of the way, often resulting in the jury's dismissal while the legal argument continued.
	eatthestate.org /03-37/PeaceTourism.htm (1134 words)

	Industry News - Female inmate numbers criticised (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Baird chairs the Fawcett Society's commission on women and the criminal justice system, which claims that women are being poorly served by a 'man-made' system.
		Baird told BBC One's 'Breakfast': "They're not dangerous people; in addition many children are being separated from their mothers for relatively short periods of time, which is not the usual way to use prison, and in addition to that, rates of recidivism amongst women are going up too, which means prison isn't working."
		She concluded by noting that although prison was emotionally traumatic and split up families, it wasn't the "hardest most horrible punishment" in terms of what was asked of a prisoner, compared with tough community sentences.
	www.serco.com /media/industrynews/ItemPage.asp?ItemID=2317365 (252 words)

	Bread Not Bombs Plowshares - Trial day 6
		Under cross-examination by Vera Baird, defending, Sternfeldt agreed that her movement, Ploughshares, was strongly influenced by Christianity.
		The ruling of Judge Peter Openshaw was quoted by Vera Baird, defending one of the three, Annika Spalde, 29, against a charge of conspiracy to commit criminal damage at Preston Crown Court.
		Miss Baird told the jury of seven women and five men that the three broke into a VSEL shipyard last September in the belief that Trident broke international law, and therefore they were acting to prevent a crime.
	www.plowshares.se /bnb/english/trial/day6.htm (1475 words)

	Northwest Florida Daily News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Baird retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1974 after serving his country honorably for almost 30 years.
		Baird held memberships in the NCO Club and the Retired Air Force Association.
		Baird is also survived by his nephews, Herman and Guy Marion of Oklahoma City, Danny, David, Dickie and Fred Baird, all of San Antonio; and nieces, Betty Taylor of San Antonio, and Doris Ware of Watonga.
	www.nwfdailynews.com /archive/obituaries/010112briefs5.html (972 words)

	Joint Committee on Human Rights - Minutes of Evidence
		Q40 Vera Baird: The provision in (e) sets out that you can admit a conviction if it is relevant to an important matter in issue between the defence and the prosecution.
		Q41 Vera Baird: That is an okay criteria, that is the one that you want to rely on all of the time.
		Q44 Vera Baird: That is exactly what you have to do under 85(1)(e), in that provision there is a need for a judge to decide whether it goes in.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/jt200203/jtselect/jtrights/118/3052204.htm (1327 words)

	Bread Not Bombs Plowshares - Court case enters the second week
		Annika is represented by Vera Baird - who was the barrister who worked with the Seeds of Hope Ploughshares group in 1996 (who disarmed a Hawk warplane bound for Indonesia and were acquitted) - and Ann-Britt and Stellan are representing themselves.
		Vera Baird outlined the case on behalf of Annika: that they had a lawful excuse - that they had been intending to use "reasonable force in the prevention of a crime".
		She outlined the 1996 advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice, and declared most of the current British government's intended uses for Trident to be unlawful.
	www.plowshares.se /bnb/english/press/990506.htm (761 words)

	Problems in tracking parents in disputed child care cases The Solicitor General announced that civil cases in ...
		In the wake of the discrediting of expert paediatric evidence used to convict mothers of cot death victims, Not only parents who have been convicted of harming children, but parents whose children were taken into care on disputed medical evidence are to have their cases reviewed.
		The attorney general Lord Goldsmith has identified that there are 258 criminal convictions and 15 pending cases to be reconsidered by the Director of Public Prosecutions in the light of the appeal court judges’ reasons for quashing the conviction of Angela Canniness for murdering her two baby sons.
		Baird says her preference would be for all these to be pursued, and not to rely on one or two of the methods.
	www.medical-journals.com /r04_22.htm (640 words)

	Existing Civil, Criminal Codes Said Denying Women Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Vera Baird who is here to conduct training on domestic violence for the judiciary of Ethiopia told WIC today the existing civil and criminal codes contravened the very rights of women which has been unequivocally stated in the constitution as having equal rights with their men counterparts.
		She said the legal codes should be made compatible with the constitution of the country so as to better defend the human rights situation of women.
		Lawyer Vera Baird, Deputy Head of Chambers and Chairwomen of the Finance and Policy Committee with the House of Commons has been offering the training organized by the British Council in collaboration with the Federal Supreme Court of Ethiopia.
	www.waltainfo.com /EnNews/2002/apr/06Apr02/Apr06e6.htm (183 words)

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		Vera Baird QC, MP Many of you will remember that two years ago the AWB's Committee was fortunate to be joined by Vera Baird QC.
		Vera was to try to be selected to run as the Labour candidate for Dr Mo Mowlam's seat in Redcar.
		Vera Baird QC was selected and, thereafter, elected by a wide and resounding majority.
	www.womenbarristers.co.uk /doc/newsletters/newsletter_autumn_2001.htm (2839 words)

	Vera Institute of Justice \| Working Internationally \| Staff
		Prior to joining Vera, India founded and directed the Youth and Family Justice Center in East Harlem and served as the first counsel of the Children's Rights Project at Human Rights Watch, where she remains on the advisory board.
		She is an attorney who recently served as senior director of Criminal and Supreme Court Programs at Safe Horizon, an organization that had its origins at Vera in the 1970s.
		Todd supervises Vera’s current work in Brazil and Chile and is also helping the Open Society Institute with the design of new work to improve states' responses to organized crime in the Balkans.
	www.vera.org /section9/section9_5.asp (466 words)

	:: Freelance UK
		Vera Baird, Labour MP for Redcar, called on the government to consider the plight of women before its planned reforms of pension laws are finalised.
		Campaigners say the government needs to recognise women are lower paid than men, take time out of their careers for caring responsibilities (for children or parents) and often work part-time, all of which affects their entitlement to the basic state pension.
		She feels it works to reduce eligibility requirements rather than actively crediting caring work and needs to be replaced by a system of "carers' credits".
	www.freelanceuk.com /news/257.shtml (874 words)

	No alla Pena di Morte - NO to the Death penalty - Comunità di Sant'Egidio
		Vera Baird, British Member of Parliament and high ranking barrister, will travel from London to provide in-person testimony at the clemency hearing.
		Present at the press conference will be Vera Baird, MP, Sister Helen Prejean, the US and British attorneys representing Mr.
		Vera Baird, MP, QC (Queen's COunsel, the highest ranking order of barrister in the UK) -- from the U.S. 207 219-8312 (office) 011 44 798 022-4797 (cell); also, if can't find, call her personal assistant, Catherine Purvis, 011 44 797 155-6225 (cell)
	www.santegidio.org /pdm/news2002/14_03_02_b.htm (562 words)

	MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News
		Meeting with local media representatives, on the day before their departure, the group, comprising three Labour members of the Westminster parliament and one Conservative member of the Welsh Assembly, were keen to show their enthusiasm for what they had seen and to pledge their support for the Falklands on their return to the UK.
		Asked for her impressions, Vera Baird, MP for Redcar in the North East of England, said that the visit had given them all an idea of the advantages and disadvantage of living in such a place and that she felt that they now had some understanding of the way the country worked.
		Baird expressed amazement at the wildlife they had seen during a visit to Pebble Island and expressed her gratitude for the warmth of the reception they had received, wherever they had been.
	www.falkland-malvinas.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=4697 (1470 words)

	A disgusting conflation of British lives \| Samizdata.net
		Because he is a British passport holder, the usual parade of people from the UK have been petitioning to commute his sentence to one of life imprisonment.
		Even our blessed leader Tony Blair has written to the US authorities on behalf of this man. Vera Baird, the Labour MP for Redcar is in the USA and has said that "at a time when British troops are working along side American troops in Afghanistan, some special consideration is called for".
		What is more, the conflation of value by the Member of Parliament for Redcar of British soldiers putting their lives on the line alongside their US comrades in the fight against terrorism, and a self confessed British rapist-murderer in the US is nothing less that a disgusting insult to British soldiers everywhere.
	www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/000678.html (464 words)

	The Buxton-Collins Judgement
		Mrs Baird complained that because the present point only emerged at the end of the trial, she and the other Defendants had then deprived of the chance of seeking and calling evidence to demonstrate that the applicable land had not been appropriated to military purposes at the time of the making of the byelaws.
		For completeness I should say that Mrs Baird in her skeleton argument before us objected to the argument based on section 2(3) of the 1964 Act, because she said the farmed part of the applicable land was not "land under the management of the Secretary of State" but land under the management of the farmers.
		That was held by the Court of Appeal in the case of Percy v Hall (1996) 4 All ER 523 applying the observations of Lord Denning in Faweett Properties v Buckinghamshire County Council (1961) AC 636 at 677 to 678.
	cndyorks.gn.apc.org /mhs/buxton-collins.htm (4957 words)

	This is The North East \| CommuniGate \| Northern Pensions Conference
		Labour MP for Redcar, Vera Baird QC, is to be a lead speaker at the Northern Pensions Conference in Newcastle in July.
		The conference is an annual event held at the University of Northumbria, in the city of Newcastle, every July.
		Around 150 union activists and member-trustees are likely to attend, to hear Vera Baird talk about her work on the House of Commons Select Committee on Work and Pensions.
	www.communigate.co.uk /ne/nprg/page1.phtml (265 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Why juries could soon be forced to retire
		Mrs Baird, a QC, was referring to an entirely separate clause that would let defendants insist on trial by judge alone.
		The changes will not reassure victims, Mrs Baird pointed out: the fl man who claims he has suffered a racial assault and finds that the defendant has chosen to be tried by a white judge, or the rape complainant who finds that no women will be involved in deciding whether her alleged attacker is guilty.
		Mr Blunkett was so worried by this risk that he introduced a new clause allowing courts to insist that defendants make up their minds before they knew who the judge would be.
	www.prisonplanet.com /why_juries_could_soon_be_forced_to_retire.html (1369 words)

	Redcar MP Information
		She wrongly states that the site implies that she does not have an email address, that it is also not available to constituents and that she does not reply to them.
		Now that Redcar in Decline is actively promoting Vera Bairds email address on its website, we would ask you to take the time to e-mail her with your thoughts, problems, dilemmas, frustrations etc on Redcar and its locale.
		We are sure that Vera Baird has the same objectives and goals in mind, regarding the regeneration of Redcar, as we do.
	redcar-in-decline.freeservers.com /custom3.html (471 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		There's the myth of the rapist as a shadowy stranger who lies in wait to strike at night.
		Maybe what we need is an inspectorate for the judiciary to protect women from at the last stage of the criminal justice process - the trial.
		· Vera Baird QC is Labour MP for Redcar.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4390845,00.html (1455 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Find Your MP \| Redcar \| Vera Baird
		Like many other MPs, Vera Baird is a barrister.
		As a member of the chambers of Michael Mansfield, Ms Baird has taken a part in some of the key civil liberties cases in recent years.
		She successfully represented the women accused of criminal damage of Hawk jets waiting to be sold to Indonesia and also took part in the case following an attack on the Trident nuclear submarine.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/shared/mpdb/html/361.stm (244 words)

	Redcar's Lifeboats - saving life at sea for more than 200 years
		Redcar Lifeboat crew were invited to spend a VIP day in the Houses of Parliament in January 2005 at the personal invitation of Redcar MP, Vera Baird QC.
		The visit was crowned with a brisk climb up the 393 steps to the Bell Floor where they stood next to the famous 'Big Ben' bell as it struck 12 Noon.
		After their descent Vera Baird joined the crew for lunch and the day was rounded off with a return to the House of Lords where the crew were given the privilege of sitting in the MP's gallery to watch the proceedings of the day.
	www.redcarlifeboat.org.uk /Pages/Misc/parliament.htm (141 words)

	icNewcastle - We want answers
		Human rights expert Vera Baird has tabled more than 100 questions in Parliament to find out how many children were taken into care because of a discredited medical condition.
		In a series of questions, Ms Baird not only asks every single social services department in the region if they are to review cases, but also what role Meadow and his protege Dr David Southall played.
		Dr Southall was recently accused of abusing his position by the General Medical Council after he accused Stephen Clark of killing his two sons on the basis of watching a TV documentary.
	icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk /sundaysun/news/tm_objectid=14370809&method=full&siteid=50081&headline=we-want-answers-name_page.html (977 words)

	icTeesside - Mp Vera's blast at inquest hold-ups
		Concerned Redcar MP Vera Baird is today demanding answers in Parliament as to why inquests take so long to complete on Teesside.
		Ms Baird QC, who sent her deepest sympathy to Lisa's family, expressed "great anxiety" over the issue.
		Ms Baird said she is adding her voice to inquiries from solicitors and other Teesside MPs asking Teesside Coroner Michael Sheffield to explain the reasons for the delays.
	icteesside.icnetwork.co.uk /ic/eveninggazette/page.cfm?objectid=11792680&method=full&siteid=50080 (381 words)

	MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News
		On the eve of their departure from the Falklands, after a week long visit, Labour MPs Dari Taylor, Vera Baird and Alan Campbell and Conservative Welsh Assembly member Alun Cairns encouraged Falkland Islanders to “keep talking” to Argentina about mutually beneficial topics.
		At a press conference held on Wednesday afternoon the four spoke of their visit in glowing terms, paying particular tribute to the Islands’ “magnificent” wildlife and the “warm” hospitality of Islanders.
		Vera Baird said she had noticed a “strong feeling” that Islanders are, “...anxious to be good neighbours to Argentina, anxious that Argentina should be good neighbours back” and, “...it is key therefore to keep open every channel of communication that is available.”
	www.falkland-malvinas.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=4707 (2067 words)

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