Bar Council chair Amanda Pinto QC reflects on an unpredictable year, in this week’s NLJ
It was supposed to be about Brexit and criminal legal aid reform. It turned out rather differently, after COVID-19 struck in March. Pinto notes her pride in the way the Bar adapted so quickly. But there were other unexpected events in 2020.
‘We did not foresee the day when the UK government would admit to breaching international law in a “specific and limited way”, writes Pinto.
There was also the ‘pivotal moment of realisation’, after the killing of George Floyd by police officers in the US, that ‘despite our efforts…we had not done enough to address the daily problems and the career trajectories for many of our talented Black members’.
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