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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