Law Society president Linda Lee had the unusual pleasure this week of witnessing her own daughter, Gabrielle Maria Lee, admitted to the solicitors’ roll.
While it is not often that a sitting president sees their own offspring admitted, it is not unprecedented, with former president Peter Williamson also having seen his daughter, Catherine Williamson, qualify into the profession during his tenure in 2003/04.
Gabrielle has bravely chosen to practise in the legal aid sector.
Government says 10% hike is justified because costs incurred by HM Courts & Tribunals Service to facilitate access to justice have gone up.
A paradigm shift is under way whereby human rights laws which are binding on business will increasingly become the norm, says former ECtHR president Robert Spano. The consequences for lawyers will be profound.
Three women who have reached the peak of their jurisdiction’s judiciary talk to Catherine Baksi about the challenges they have faced.
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