05 November 2021
Recent commentary in the press to the effect that lawyers should exercise more moral judgment about the cases they take on has made barrister Theo Huckle QC uneasy
Writing in this week’s NLJ, Huckle explains how the talking-down of lawyers shows a serious lack of leadership in public debate.
He writes: ‘My job …is not to judge clients legally and, even worse, morally. That’s another job, honestly. I didn’t train for it. Lawyers judging clients feeds miscarriage of justice. Plenty of unlikely cases have turned out to be absolutely correct.’
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