This by HMG is Nazi style propaganda. If you look back at their attacks on professionals who were purported to oppose them. You attack the integrity of lawyers simply doing their job & you end up with tame lawyers themselves on trial at Nuremberg for complicity in shame of abuse.
2/ Under the Nazis as well as the bench & the prosecution
Counsel for the defence saw themselves as agents of the state & routinely turned against their clients in pursuit of what they saw as State interests.
That’s what happens when you don’t have ‘activist lawyers’.
See:
Counsel for the defence saw themselves as agents of the state & routinely turned against their clients in pursuit of what they saw as State interests.
That’s what happens when you don’t have ‘activist lawyers’.
See:
3/ this from the UN.
un.org/en/holocaustre…
‘If the legal profession had insisted from day one of the Third Reich on obedience to justice, fairness, due process and the rule of law, the Nazi project could have been stopped before it developed a full head of steam’ &
un.org/en/holocaustre…
‘If the legal profession had insisted from day one of the Third Reich on obedience to justice, fairness, due process and the rule of law, the Nazi project could have been stopped before it developed a full head of steam’ &
4/ ‘Only because the legal profession and the legal system tolerated and cooperated in the lesser wrongs did the greater wrongs become possible’
That apples to victims of the holocaust and potentially to asylum seekers today. ‘Lawyer activists are needed to prevent repetition’
That apples to victims of the holocaust and potentially to asylum seekers today. ‘Lawyer activists are needed to prevent repetition’
5/ This Home Office smear and clear intent to indulge in the denigration of ‘lawyer activists’ who simply hold Government to account under the law is a dangerous development and must be withdrawn without delay for the nasty propaganda it is. We are professionals not activists.
@threadreaderapp please unroll
