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Andrea Coomber has been Andrea Coomber has been Director of JUSTICE since February 2013. As Director she has reoriented the organization's strategy and been instrumental in the development of JUSTICE's work on system reform, including on changing the model of decision making in the civil courts and tribunals, reconfiguration of court buildings to respond to the use of ordinary court users and increasing judicial diversity. Between 2002 and 2013 Andrea was Equality Lawyer and then Legal Director at INTERIGHTS where she litigated key cases before the European Court of Human Rights and the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. Before joining INTERIGHTS, she worked at the International Service for Human Rights in Geneva and at the South Asia Documentation Centre in New Delhi. She is qualified as a barrister and solicitor in Western Australia. Andrea has a BA/LLB (Hons) from the University of Western Australia and an LLM in Public International Law (Dist.) from the London School of Economics, where she was awarded the Rosalyn Higgins Award for topping the course. She sits on the litigation advisory panels of a number of international human rights organizations and lectures regularly on international litigation and equality law. Andrea Signs. She is a trustee of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, of BAILII (British and Irish Legal Information Institute) and of a small refugee yoga charity, OurMala. In 2015, Andrea was elected an Honorary Master of the Bench of Middle Temple.
By Dr. James KelleyAndrea Coomber has been Andrea Coomber has been Director of JUSTICE since February 2013. As Director she has reoriented the organization's strategy and been instrumental in the development of JUSTICE's work on system reform, including on changing the model of decision making in the civil courts and tribunals, reconfiguration of court buildings to respond to the use of ordinary court users and increasing judicial diversity. Between 2002 and 2013 Andrea was Equality Lawyer and then Legal Director at INTERIGHTS where she litigated key cases before the European Court of Human Rights and the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. Before joining INTERIGHTS, she worked at the International Service for Human Rights in Geneva and at the South Asia Documentation Centre in New Delhi. She is qualified as a barrister and solicitor in Western Australia. Andrea has a BA/LLB (Hons) from the University of Western Australia and an LLM in Public International Law (Dist.) from the London School of Economics, where she was awarded the Rosalyn Higgins Award for topping the course. She sits on the litigation advisory panels of a number of international human rights organizations and lectures regularly on international litigation and equality law. Andrea Signs. She is a trustee of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, of BAILII (British and Irish Legal Information Institute) and of a small refugee yoga charity, OurMala. In 2015, Andrea was elected an Honorary Master of the Bench of Middle Temple.