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Letter protesting attacks on lawyers

Kenworthy's Chambers | October 26, 2020

The undersigned are practising Barristers (some working for central and local government), Solicitors, Legal Academics and retired Judges. We are all deeply concerned at recent attacks, made by the Home Secretary and echoed by the Prime Minister, on Lawyers seeking to hold the government to the law.

Such attacks endanger not only the personal safety of Lawyers and others working for the justice system, as has recently been vividly seen; they undermine the rule of law which Ministers and Lawyers alike are duty bound to uphold.

We invite both the Home Secretary and the Prime Minister to behave honourably by apologising for their display of hostility, and to refrain from such attacks in the future.

All signatures are given in a personal capacity. https://www.defendlawyers.co.uk/