Liberty

This is one of those things that sort of jogged me around for the rest of my life, the wretched Elvino's case.

But it was important because we campaigned and helped devise, if you like, with, again, another important part of my life, a a group of women and some men who worked around what was then called the National Council for Civil Liberties, which then became Liberty.

So I was very interested in civil liberties as well as in women's rights.

And we campaigned for the Sex Discrimination Act, which was passed and brought into force alongside the Equal Pay Act in 1975-76.

She was in London, I was in The Hague.

Born in London in 1969, Chakrabarti first rose to prominence in the early 2000s when she was appointed director of the human rights organization Liberty.

She and her team made headlines around the world campaigning against what they considered excessive anti-terror legislation introduced in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.

She stepped down from the position just over a decade later after being appointed a life peer in the British House of Lords.