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 Re: تريفور فليبس : العنصرية " تمنع ظهور أوباما بريطاني" (Re: Salwa Seyam)
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خطوة في طريق الاصلاح
If Lady Scotland had heeded the advice of a lecturer at London University she might not have been where she is today.
One of 12 children born in Dominica to a family of rich Caribbean landowners, she was brought to Britain when she was three.
She studied law despite a lecturer's warning that being black and female might be too big a hurdle to overcome.
How wrong he was, now that Gordon Brown has named her attorney general, the chief legal adviser to the government - the first woman to hold the post.
After her legal studies, Lady Scotland practised family law - not a field noted for high-flyers - as a barrister.
Yet even then, her talents were noticed. She was officially nudged by the last Conservative lord chancellor, Lord Mackay, to apply for silk at the unusually early age of 35, years before she herself would have thought of applying. He was intent on making her the country's first woman high court judge.
But Tony Blair beat him to the punch by nominating her for a life peerage on a Labour party list of working peers.
Patricia Scotland became Baroness Scotland of Asthal - the Oxfordshire village where she and her barrister husband live with their two sons. In due course she became the first black woman appointed a minister in the government.
She was reckoned to have been a good Lords performer in her Foreign Office job as junior minister responsible for the Caribbean and Britain's overseas territories. During her time there, she did no harm to her image by abseiling down a crevasse while on a foreign office trip to Antarctica.
Her next job was altogether tougher. The first woman lawyer to be made a minister of state in the lord chancellor's department, she assumed responsibility for the department's bills in the upper house.
She had the daunting task of defending the government's criminal justice bill plans for judge-only trials in serious and complex fraud cases.
Some thought she was too nice for the job and wondered whether she could deal with peers highly versed on such legal matters.
But she was confident, good at her job, on top of her brief; she worked hard and held her own. In the words of one veteran lobby correspondent, although Lady Scotland had been in the Lords for only five minutes, she looked as if she had been there for generations. In 2004, Channel 4 voted her "peer of the year".
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(عدل بواسطة Osama Mohammed on 11-14-2008, 12:56 PM)
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Osama Mohammed
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