NYC Bar Association Urges Theresa May to Protect Northern Ireland Lawyers (HuffPost)

HuffPost, July 15, 2017

NYC Bar Association Urges Theresa May to Protect Northern Ireland Lawyers

“The New York City Bar Association has joined those publicly worried about the intimidation of lawyers in Northern Ireland. In a July 11 letter to British Prime Minister Theresa May and Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire, the association outlines ‘a series of concerns surrounding the recent climate of intimidation that has been reemerging for lawyers in Northern Ireland.’ NYC Bar Association President John S. Kiernan wrote: ‘It is particularly disquieting that [U.K.] government officials appear to have contributed to this climate of intimidation, both by failing to adequately intervene in response to these threats and by engaging in their own attacks on lawyers.'”

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