Features
We need to talk about race: a mid-term report
Microaggressions in court and everyday racism: what white colleagues don’t have to put up with and a 10-step plan for improving diversity and inclusion. By <em>Professor Leslie Thomas QC </em>
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Lawyers in film: Twelve Angry Men (1957)
The legendary Twelve Angry Men is not a film about lawyers per se but the machinations of trial by jury, presently under threat in this jurisdiction. An analysis by <em>David Langwallner </em>
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All Rise: The Bradford Legal Heritage Plays
A barrister, a comedian and a deputy lieutenant log onto a Zoom call... how Bradford found a way to keep laughing through lockdown. <em>By Lydia Pearce </em>
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Law reformer: Lady Arden
The proud Northener and ardent law reformer talks to <em>Anthony Inglese CB </em>about her early years as a company law barrister, custom and practice at the Supreme Court, and supporting the ambition of women and underrepresented groups at the Bar
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A rounded advocate: Sally Penni MBE
Recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for her services to diversity in the workplace, social mobility and law, <em>Sally Penni MBE </em> talks about her projects outside the courtroom and her driving forces
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Banaz Mahmod: 15 years on, lessons still to be learned
With stricter quarantining restrictions being imposed up and down the country, those in the criminal justice system must be more vigilant than ever against HBV, write <em>Riel Karmy-Jones QC </em>and <em>Nicholas Hall </em> examining the case of Banaz Mahmod, recently dramatized for ITV, its wider impact and heightened relevance today
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Book review: Fake Law - The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies
<p>By The Secret Barrister </p><p>Published by Picador (Hardcover: September 2020) </p><p>ISBN<strong> </strong>978-1529009941 </p><p><em>Reviewed by John Cooper QC </em> </p>
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The forgotten victims of domestic abuse
At least 57% of women in prison and under community supervision are victims of domestic abuse. <em>Paramjit Ahluwalia </em>briefs readers on the proposed amendments to the Domestic Abuse Bill extending protection for those compelled to offend<strong> </strong>
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Refugee Channel crossings: the legal position
Crossing the busiest shipping lane in the world in a small dinghy may or may not be ‘bad and stupid and dangerous’, but is it really criminal? An analysis of the legal position, by <em>Colin Yeo </em>
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