The AOUG Vice-Chancellor Baroness Boothroyd Award for Law
Baroness Boothroyd was born in Dewsbury Yorkshire in 1929. She is a British politician and was the first female speaker of the House of Commons. She was the Chancellor of the Open University from 1994 to October 2006. She has now retired.
2007 recipient Ms Vicky Scoble
The Baroness Boothroyd Award for Law 2007 was awarded to Ms Vicki Scobie. She is the very first recipient of this award. Vicki was introduced to us by Professor Gary Slapper.
Vicki graduated with a First Class LL.B (hons) from the Open University in 2001. She was awarded the Open University London region award for outstanding achievement in 2002. She attended the College of Law at Guildford and passed the LPC with distinction in 2003. Vicki's research expertise is in the field of technical rules of civil procedure, and their role in facilitating civil litigation. She is also an expert in the funding of legal services and the regulation of the legal profession. These fields are very dynamic with change occurring often, and with change entailing multifarious impacts on the nature of the provision of legal services to the public. Vicki's work in identifying from the thousands of professional regulatory changes those whose impact on legal services are most significant, and in setting them in a critical context has been excellent.