Sunday, October 08, 2006

A life of ermine and Asbos / The Sunday Times, 8 Oct 2006

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2090-2391728,00.html
Gillian Bowditch
"Baroness Helena Kennedy is a stranger to failure, but the renowned lawyer is prepared to plead guilty to her part in the birth of the Asbo. While in Edinburgh last week to give the inaugural lecture of Children 1st, the Scottish charity, the Red Baroness, as she is known, publicly revealed for the first time her sense of guilt about her part in the creation of antisocial behaviour orders (Asbos), that blunt instrument in the criminal justice tool box and one she despises. "