Shauneen Lambe is the founder and director of Just for Kids Law. She qualified as an attorney in Louisiana and a barrister in the UK and started her career working for Clive Stafford Smith representing people facing the death penalty in the USA. In 1999 she helped establish the charity Reprieve. In 2006 she set up Just for Kids Law in London. She is an Ashoka Fellow, the UK chair for Global Dignity and on the board of Birthrights a charity protecting human rights in childbirth.
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Published in: Shine A LightTreating kids in trouble like adults isn’t justice
In youth justice, time and again, adults let children down, says Just for Kids Law.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK3 police officers forcibly strip a vulnerable child without calling her mum. Is that all right?
More and more children are being stripped or strip-searched in state custody in England and Wales. Children’s...
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Published in: Shine A LightOn Human Rights Day let's talk about raising the age of criminal responsibility
Children of 10 in England and Wales are held criminally responsible for their actions. That can't be right.
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Published in: Shine A Light‘We changed the law to save children’s lives’
Sometimes campaigning works. How bereaved parents, lawyers, campaigners, one brave teenager (and 30,000 people who...
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Published in: 50.50How we treat children in the UK: the dark side of our soul
If the Conservatives' plans to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights are implemented, the...
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Published in: Shine A LightBritish charities could lose the right to challenge bad laws
Following the suicide of two 17-year olds, campaigners forced a review of the law covering treatment of children in...