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Top UK lawyer hits out at ‘authoritarian’ attacks on legal profession

A leading British lawyer has compared UK government attacks on the profession to the tactics used by authoritarian regimes.

Helena Kennedy KC, one of the UK’s most renowned criminal lawyers and a Labour peer, said ministers were deliberately creating scapegoats.

Speaking in her capacity as the president of council at the law reform and human rights charity Justice before publication of its report on threats to the rule of law, one of which it…


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