Endangered lawyers: Climate of intimidation ‘re-emerging’ in Northern Ireland (The Law Society Gazette)
The Law Society Gazette, January 24, 2018
Endangered lawyers: Climate of intimidation ‘re-emerging’ in Northern Ireland
“Attacks on Northern Ireland solicitors and law officers in press and parliament have led to harassment and credible death threats against lawyers, the Gazette has been told. As the legal profession worldwide marks the ‘Day of the Endangered Lawyer’, alleged UK government indifference has attracted international criticism….A strongly-worded letter on the subject sent last summer to the Prime Minister and to then-Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire by the president of the 24,000-member New York City Bar, John Kiernan, has been seen by the Gazette. Kiernan expressed ‘a series of concerns surrounding the recent climate of intimidation that has been re-emerging for lawyers in Northern Ireland’.”
