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NLJ this week: What's in a name?

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16 July 2021
Issue: 7941 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Equality , Human rights
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Rebranding the past―when historical ideals fall short of modern values

Hardwicke Chambers is changing its name due to the problematic decisions of the eighteenth-century Attorney General after which it is named.

Writing in this week’s NLJ, John Gould, senior partner, Russell-Cooke, looks into the reasons for the name-change―the Earl of Hardwicke’s decision that enslaved people should legally be considered the property of their ‘owners’ even if they set foot on English soil or were baptised.

Hardwicke Chambers will henceforth be known as Gatehouse Chambers.

Issue: 7941 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Equality , Human rights
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