Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
SOLICITOR General Vera Baird was due in Edinburgh today to highlight the UK Government's Equality Bill.
Tim Worstall (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
THE solicitor-general, Vera Baird, has signalled the introduction of new rights for millions of carers of elderly relatives and sick children, raising the prospect of a clash with Lord Mandelson, the business secretary. Under the proposal, in a bill to be outlined in the Queen’s speech on Wednesday, carers who believe they are [...]
Times Online (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
THE solicitor-general, Vera Baird, has signalled the introduction of new rights for millions of carers of elderly relatives and sick children, raising the prospect of a clash with Lord Mandelson, the business secretary.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
Depressing statistics marked the start of the More Women More Power campaign , launched in the House of Commons today. Vera Baird, the solicitor general, told the event organised by One World Action , that on average women earn 17.4% less than men doing the same job. Before 1997, just 9% of MPs were women and today that figure is still only 19.4%. Even with Labour's all-women shortlists, Baird pointed...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Law OfficersAttorney General - Baroness Scotland of Asthal QCSolicitor General - Vera Baird QCAdvocate General for Scotland - Lord Davidson of Glen Clova
Chris & Glynis Abbott (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
The Liberal Democrats By Election campaign in Kirkleatham Ward, Redcar , received a boost yesterday from an unlikely source - Labour MP Vera Baird. Lib Dem campaigners fell about laughing when they read a letter from the out of touch MP that was published in the Evening Gazette. Obviously miffed by an item in Focus she complains that we referred to her office as the 'Justice Department' and claims...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Vera Baird: They caused a stir, but government plans for a reform of the 50-year-old provocation defence are to be welcomed
Times Online - Guest contributors (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
Harriet Harman, Labour's deputy leader, may not strictly be in charge of Downing Street at the moment, but you can hardly say that she's lying low. She is fronting the Government's proposals to reform the law on murder - along with Vera Baird, the Solicitor-General, and Maria Eagle, the Justice Minister. Under one of the amendments now up for discussion, a man who kills his wife for infidelity will...
Radio 4 - Today (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
Proposals as part of a major shake-up of murder laws in England and Wales suggest the current defence of provocation should be scrapped. Solicitor General Vera Baird discusses the plan.
Chris & Glynis Abbott (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
This is the sight that now welcomes visitors into Redcar by train. The Yorkshire flag has replaced the Union Flag which had worn in half over Hartgrove's Removal depot. The Redcar Station complex also houses the constituency office of Redcar's MP, Vera Baird, who may need to be told what the flag stands for.
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 23/06/2008
Hoping for chess success Jun 23 2008 by Dave Robson , Evening Gazette CHILDREN were left picking up the pieces when an MP checked in with an unusual gift. Redcar MP Vera Baird, and English Chess Federation President, Normanby resident Gerry Walsh, delivered 10 chess sets to St Peter’s RC College of Maths and Computing in South Bank. The handover is among the first in a Government-backed national programme,...
The Why of the World (Free subscription) | 22/06/2008
Full coverage of UK Politics Home office minister Vernon Coaker has taken ministerial colleagues Vera Baird and Barbara Follett on a fact-finding mission to the Red Light District of Amsterdam today. They are there to observe Holland's notoriously liberal approach to prostitution as part of the Government's review into the law in this area. But the
Times Online (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Vera Baird is not so much a politician as a Valkyrie. Tall and willowy, with a head of flaming red hair, she is a fighter by nature.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Leader: The assumption in our law of succession that a man trumps a woman, that a younger son should take the throne ahead of an older sister, was a "load of rubbish", according to Vera Baird, the solicitor general
Family Research (Free subscription) | 29/04/2008
The Queen's ministers interfere with the constitutional monarchy at their peril, as the Solicitor General, Vera Baird, has discovered to her cost. for more click here
