{"id":10642,"date":"2020-03-27T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=10642"},"modified":"2020-03-26T09:47:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T09:47:35","slug":"lawyers-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=10642","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Extinction Rebellion&#8217;s October protest continued on its third day with a protest outside the Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/10\/09\/20191009-d0099.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was in some ways an unusual protest, involving a number of figures from the legal world, solicitors, barristers and others, including Richard Lord QC and  international climate lawyer and diplomat Farhana Yamin, as well as leading figures in XR, including Gail  Bradbrook and Lawyers for XR founders Natalie Barbosa and  Paul Powlesland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/10\/09\/20191009-d0066.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lawyers for XR is one of a number of special interest groups within the organisation, and its formation was inspired by the example of medical workers who had formed their own group.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/10\/09\/20191009-d0094.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The lawyers had come up with their own &#8216;Lawyers&#8217; Declaration of Rebellion&#8217; and copies of this, wrapped in the traditional pink ribbon for briefs were handed around, giving the protest its own look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/10\/09\/20191009-d0188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lawyers have of course played an important role in the fight to save the planet, and among those remembered at this event were Scottish barrister\u00a0Polly Higgins who died in April 2019 and had led a long campaign calling for a criminal\u00a0law\u00a0of\u00a0ecocide\u00a0to impose a\u00a0legal\u00a0duty on governments to protect the public from dangerous industrial practices.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/10\/09\/20191009-d0201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>More pictures at  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/10\/oct.htm#allrise\" target=\"_blank\">All Rise For Climate Justice<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center\">All photographs on this and my other sites, unless otherwise stated, are taken by and copyright of Peter Marshall, and are available for reproduction or can be bought as prints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:10px\" class=\"has-text-align-center\">There are no adverts on this site and it receives no sponsorship, and I like to keep it that way. But it does take a considerable amount of my time and thought, and if you enjoy reading it, please <strong><em>share on social media<\/em><\/strong>. <br>And <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/paypal.me\/Rephoto\" target=\"_blank\">small donations via Paypal<\/a> &#8211; perhaps the cost of a beer &#8211; would be appreciated.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extinction Rebellion&#8217;s October protest continued on its third day with a protest outside the Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand. It was in some ways an unusual protest, involving a number of figures from the legal world, solicitors, barristers and others, including Richard Lord QC and international climate lawyer and diplomat Farhana Yamin, as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=10642\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lawyers Protest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[1723,1719,1718,1720,561,1721,39,1716,1717,1725,16,1724,1722,38],"class_list":["post-10642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work","category-political-issues","tag-barristers","tag-brief","tag-declaration","tag-declaration-of-rebellion","tag-ecocide","tag-ecocide-law","tag-extinction-rebellion","tag-lawyers","tag-lawyers-for-xr","tag-legal-workers","tag-protest","tag-qc","tag-solicitors","tag-xr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10643,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10642\/revisions\/10643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}