Anne-Marie Hutchinson OBE QC was an Irish lawyer known for her work in the UK concerning children's rights, particularly forced marriage and international child abduction.
14 Facts About Anne-Marie Hutchinson
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Anne-Marie Hutchinson's mother was a nurse and father ran a barbers.
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Anne-Marie Hutchinson moved to England when she was a child after her father got a job on a US airbase near Huntingdon.
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Anne-Marie Hutchinson suffered from osteomyelitis, a bone condition, which caused her to miss the last two years of primary school.
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Anne-Marie Hutchinson spent a year in Addenbrooke's Hospital where she had to relearn how to walk.
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Anne-Marie Hutchinson left St Peter's School at 16 and worked as bank teller for two years.
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Anne-Marie Hutchinson then attended Huntingdon Technical College where she received 3 A-level qualifications.
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Anne-Marie Hutchinson graduated from the Leeds University with a degree in international history and politics and became a qualified solicitor in 1985.
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Anne-Marie Hutchinson joined the London law firm Dawson Cornwell in 1998 and became the head of its children's department.
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Anne-Marie Hutchinson worked on the first English court case of forced marriage in 1999.
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Anne-Marie Hutchinson ensured the return of a Sikh girl who had been abducted by her parents to force her into marriage in India.
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Anne-Marie Hutchinson worked to introduce the Forced Marriage Act 2007, which made it illegal for women and girls to be taken overseas to be forced into marriage.
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Anne-Marie Hutchinson received an OBE in 2002 for services to international adoption and child abduction and was made an honorary QC in 2016.
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Anne-Marie Hutchinson won the UNICEF Child Rights Lawyer Award in 1999 and the International Bar Association Outstanding International Woman Lawyer Award in 2010.