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Heilbron chaired a committee to consider reform of rape laws in 1975.

The committee's subsequent report recommended that the identity of rape complainants should be kept secret, and that the defence should be limited in its ability to cross-examine the complainant about their sexual history in an effort to attack their character.

In 1976, she was made an honorary fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where her daughter ( Hilary Nora Burstein Heilbron, born 1949, who also became a QC, in 1987 ) had been educated.