Liza Picard

Elizabeth Kate Picard (née Sleigh; 11 October 1927 – 8 April 2022) was an English lawyer and historian.

As a teenager she cycled around southern France reporting on the situation of young displaced persons for the Red Cross.

She began her career by writing a book in 1948 called Questions and Answers on Private International Law, for which she was paid £25 (equivalent to £1,148 in 2023).

She also chaired the Social Security Appeal Tribunal in Oxford in the 1990s, where, as The Guardian recalled, "she dispensed as much public money as she dared".

[1] In Picard's later years, she lived in Hackney and Oxford, before moving to west London at the end of her life.