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Rayner my parade! The importance of specialist advice.
Jemma Brimblecombe
14 February 2018
IWD: 100 Years of Votes for [Some] Women: an LSE Law Celebration – A Review
Last week, the LSE Law department hosted the above public lecture to mark 100 years since the coming into force of the Representation of the People Act 1918. The event featured speeches from a spread of remarkable female lawyers: Baroness Brenda Hale, current President of the Supreme Court; Baroness Shami Chakrabarti, former director of the human rights group Liberty and current Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales; and Professor Nicola Lacey, Professor of Law, Gender and Social Policy at LSE. Jeremy Horder, Head of the Law Department and Professor of Criminal Law at LSE, chaired the discussion.
13 February 2018
IWD: Generation #: The power of social media in the fight for progress
In October 2017, a simple hashtag used on Twitter ignited a spark around the world and immediately went viral across social media. The American singer/actress Alyssa Milano posted on Twitter asking people who had experienced sexual violence to reply ‘me too’ to her tweet. Her aim was to try to highlight the prevalence of sexual assault and harassment experienced by women.
12 February 2018
IWD: International Women's Day – did you know?
International Women's Day is celebrated in many countries around the world on 8 March. It is a day when women are recognised for their past achievements whilst also remembering that there is still more to do to achieve gender parity.
8 November 2017
It’s the 16th annual National Pro Bono Week
It’s the 16th annual National Pro Bono Week, which is a very important feature of my life as a lawyer at Kingsley Napley.
6 October 2017
Celebrating 30 years of Black History Month
On Monday I attended an event hosted by 2 Hare Court on the Lammy Review. For those who have not seen it, on the 8th of September, the Government published an independent review by David Lammy, MP for Tottenham which it commissioned on the ‘treatment of, and outcomes for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) individuals in the Criminal Justice System (CJS)’.