Don’t punish lawyers for giving advice

Gray’s Inn head calls for extended cab-rank rule and more black lawyers

There should be no place for sanctions against barristers’ chambers or law firms, a leading QC said last night.

Ali Malek is this year’s treasurer — elected head — of Gray’s Inn, one of the four inns of court to which barristers must belong.¹ He was delivering the inaugural lecture of a working group set up jointly last year by the inn and solicitors from…