Grace Pelly
Year of Call: 2007 Lincoln's Inn
M.A (Hons) Cantab, LL.M Distinction LSE
Awards: Thomas More scholarship, Hardwicke scholarship (Lincoln's Inn), 11 King's Bench Walk Prize for Human Rights Law (LSE)
Biography
Grace joined chambers on completion of her pupillage in January 2012. She has experience of defending in the Crown, Magistrates and Youth Courts. She was recently appointed to a CPS Panel for general crime, level 1.
Prior to her pupillage she worked as an Associate Legal Officer at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Tanzania and as a Legal Officer at the Human Rights Law Network in India. Whilst working in India she published a number of articles on issues of human rights and criminal justice and a book, published in January 2009 entitled “State Terrorism: Torture, Extra-Judicial Killings and Forced Disappearances in India.” She was the joint coordinator of a nation-wide programme to train grass-roots activists to combat impunity in relation to torture and was Greenpeace’s legal representative in Mumbai.
Grace was formerly a researcher for the human rights organisation African Rights in Rwanda and has conducted internships and voluntary work at the Kurdish Human Rights Project, the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, African and Middle East Refugee Assistance (AMERA), Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID) and the Refugee Council.