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New chief justice is no pushover

New chief justice is no pushover

Lady Justice Carr upholds ‘severe’ sentences on protestors

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Joshua Rozenberg
Aug 01, 2023
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The next chief justice of England and Wales is no pushover. That’s the message Lady Justice Carr sent out yesterday when, sitting with Mrs Justice Cutts and Mrs Justice Thornton, she dismissed appeals against sentence by two climate-change protesters who had climbed the Queen Elizabeth II bridge at Dartford in Kent last October and suspended themselves …

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