Top UK lawyer hits out at ‘authoritarian’ attacks on legal profession
by Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6EMCC)
Exclusive: Respect for law being undermined by disparagement of lawyers and judges', says Helena Kennedy
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.
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