← Back to all Lords
Official portrait of The Rt Hon. the Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE

The Rt Hon. the Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE

Crossbench Member of the House of Lords F
Baroness Hale of Richmond's full title is The Rt Hon. the Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE. Her name is Brenda Marjorie Hale, and she is a current member of the House of Lords.

Allowance claims · 2026

Data not yet released for 2026 — the Lords Finance Office publishes monthly CSVs ~6-8 weeks after month-end.

Lords votes · 2026

No Lords votes recorded for 2026.

Recent Hansard contributions · latest 5

2025-03-20 European Convention on Human Rights: 75th Anniversary
My Lords, I, too, thank the noble Lord, Lord Alton, for initiating this debate and for his terrific speech in introducing it. Perhaps I should declare an interest. I was privileged to be among Her Majesty’s judges sitting on the Woolsack to hear the Q
2025-01-29 Royal Albert Hall Bill [HL]
My Lords, I did not expect to have to answer that sort of accusation. The Select Committee was formed because there was a petition against the Bill from three people. The hall objected to the locus standi of the petitioners, and we heard both sides of th
2025-01-29 Royal Albert Hall Bill [HL]
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson, for moving this amendment and for having had the skill to devise an amendment within the scope of the Bill. I would be failing in my duty if I did not draw your Lordships’ attention to the speci
2024-02-19 Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
My Lords, I shall explain why I am proud to support this vital group of amendments to Clause 4 proposed by the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti. They restore to the courts of this country the role which is properly theirs under our centuries-old constitu
2023-11-23 Mental Health: Children and Young People
My Lords, I am so grateful to the noble Earl, Lord Russell, for giving us the opportunity to debate this most important subject, one in which I have taken a close personal interest in my professional career. But first, I owe you an apology. This is my ma
Source: hansard.parliament.uk via hansard-api. Snippets shown verbatim from the search API; click any debate title for the full record.

Register of Interests · 4 entries on file

Declarations under the Lords Code of Conduct. Free text — no monetary values, no hours worked. A declaration that an interest exists, not a claim about its size.

Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.

  • Sultan Azlan Shah Fellow, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
    registered 2021-05-03 · amended 2025-04-05
  • The Bodley Head / Vintage have contracted the member to write two books about her life and about the law; royalties payments are being received
    registered 2020-06-09 · amended 2025-04-05
  • Self-employment as writer and lecturer (including as Consultant Editor for Lexis Nexis)
    registered 2020-02-13 · amended 2025-04-05

Category 3: Land and property

  • House in North Yorkshire
    registered 2020-02-13 · amended 2025-04-09
Source: UK Parliament Members API (Lords register). Refreshed weekly. Read the full Lords Code of Conduct for what each category covers and the disclosure thresholds.

Party history

2020-01-12present
Crossbench current
2009-10-012020-01-11
Non-affiliated
2004-01-122009-09-30
Crossbench

Government posts

None recorded.

Opposition posts

None recorded.

Committee memberships

2024-03-112024-04-23
Royal Albert Hall Bill [HL] Committee Chair +£17,806/yr

Contact

Parliamentary office
haleb@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW

APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s)

No APPG officerships found for this peer. (Officer matching is by name — if the parliamentary register lists them under a slightly different form, the join may miss; check /appgs directly.)

Written parliamentary questions · 2026

No written questions tabled in 2026.

Bills sponsored & supported · 2026

0 bills 0 as lead sponsor 0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported in 2026.
Source: UK Parliament Bills API. "Lead" sponsor is the primary mover (sortOrder = 1); "Supporter" rows are members of either House who backed the bill at introduction. Year is the bill's first-reading date.

Historic bills (all-time)

0 bills 0 as lead sponsor 0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported on record.
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at introduction. Sorted newest first.
Loading… this can take up to a minute.