Blair's wife to address law students and conference

British Prime Minister Tony Blair's wife, Cherie Booth, will be lecturing international law students and address a conference in Malta tomorrow.

The lecture to students attending the international law course organised by the Department of International law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Malta will be entitled Human Rights: A Personal Perspective.

The lecture is one in a series of activities dealing with international human rights organised by the Department of International Law in conjunction with ELSA Malta.

Department head David Attard said he was pleased that such a distinguished lawyer had agreed to share her views on human rights with students. The idea to invite her over, Prof. Attard, said, came after reading her Tyburn lecture on human rights.

Prof. Attard represents Malta on the steering committee on human rights at the Council of Europe.

Ms Booth will be the guest speaker at a conference organised by the Lord Slynn of Hadley European Law Foundation, the Judicial Studies Committee and the Chamber of Advocates, with the support of the British High Commission.

She will address the participants - Maltese judges, magistrates and advocates - on Applying Community Law and Human Rights.

Ms Booth, QC is a barrister and the mother of four children. After studying law at the London School of Economics she came top of her year in her Bar examinations and was called to the Bar in 1976. She became a Queen's Counsel in 1995 and now specialises in public, employment and European Community law at Matrix Chambers, Grays Inn, London. She is a Recorder and Bencher of Lincoln's Inn.

This will be Ms Booth's first visit to Malta.

The Lord Slynn Foundation was here in the spring of 2004 to discuss with Malta's judiciary and advocates the legal impact of EU accession.