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Scotland speaking at the Royal Courts of Justice before LGBT History Month. (2007)

Patricia Janet Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal, PC, QC (born 19 August 1955) is a barrister and the current Attorney General for England and Wales and Northern Ireland, a ministerial position in Her Majesty's Government.

Scotland was born in Dominica to Antiguan and Dominican parents, but her family moved to Walthamstow when she was three, where she went to Walthamstow School for Girls. She is the tenth of twelve children. She was educated at Mid Essex Technical College in Chelmsford where she pursued an external London University (LLB) law degree in 1976. She was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1977, specialising in family and children's law. In 1991, she was the first black woman to be made a Queen's Counsel.

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