A Lawyer Writes

A Lawyer Writes

Don’t punish lawyers for giving advice

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

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Joshua Rozenberg
Apr 29, 2021
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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…

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