Junior Labour Lawyers AGM
Last week the Young Labour Lawyers had their AGM. Please join me in congratulating the new committee: Chair: Daniel Jones Vice-Chair: Bren Albiston Secretary: Axel Landin Membership Officer: Elsie Powers At the AGM a motion was passed unanimously to rename the Young Labour Lawyers to the Junior Labour Lawyers (JLL) to reflect how law students […]
SLL at Labour Conference 2018 – 2
Our final fringe meeting was co-hosted (as always) with JUSTICE and focused on Reforms to the Justice system. The meeting was chaired by Catherine Atkinson (SLL secretary and Labour PPC for Erewash) and featured Andrew Walker of the Bar, Simon Davies of the Law Society, Jodie Blackstock of JUSTICE and Shami Chakrabarti. Shami Chakrabarti was […]
SLL AGM 2018
SLL’s Annual General Meeting was held at the Law Society on 12 December 2018. Chair, Kate O’Rourke summarised the Society’s work this year, including a PFI event with Labour Business, Family Group round table with Emma Lewell-Buck, the City Group events and our Conference programme. New groups have been set up in Manchester and Bristol […]
SLL at Labour Conference 2018 – 1
In our first Fringe meeting of Party Conference, we welcomed Labour’s shadow justice front bench: Nick Thomas-Symonds, Shami Chakrabarti and Richard Burgon as well as representatives from the Law Society (Simon Davies) and Bar Council (Richard Atkins QC). Shami started by reassuring attendees that lawyers are at the heart of this shadow front bench (about […]
Labour Lawyers on Nationalisation – BITs and bobs
Labour City Lawyers met on 11 September 2018 to discuss Labour’s plans for public ownership of national utilities. Unfortunately, Jon Trickett MP was taken ill but we were joined by a more than adequate replacement: Professor David Hall, founding director of the Public Services International Research Unit at the University of Greenwich; who joined Cat Hobbs, founding […]
Family Group meeting with Emma Lewell-Buck MP
SLL’s Family law sub-group were delighted to meet for the first time with Labour’s Shadow Education Minister for Children and Families Policy Emma Lewell-Buck, MP for South Shields, at Parliament on Wednesday 12 September 2018. We first discussed the ‘care crisis’ facing the family courts. Outgoing President of the Family Division, Sir James Munby, has […]
Democracy Review Submission
Introduction The Society of Labour Lawyers (“SLL”) welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the Democracy Review as a key part of the Labour Party and the wider Labour movement. SLL values our role and history in the Party and exists to be the legal think tank of the Party, to provide specialist legal advice when […]
Jess Phillips MP on Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
The Panel: Catherine Atkinson, Deeba Syed, Ava Etamadzadeh and Jess Phillips MP SLL and Fabian Society members met on the evening of Monday 2 July to discuss policy ideas to combat and investigate sexual harassment both as a future Labour government. SLL Secretary, employment barrister and PPC for Erewash, Catherine Atkinson, opened the meeting by […]
Employment Group UNISON meeting
Society of Labour Lawyers’ Employment Group met on the top floor of Congress House on 30 May 2018 to hear from guest speaker SHANTHA DAVID of UNISON, leader of their triumphant 2017 case (transcript here). Labour had a manifesto pledge to abolish tribunal fees in May 2017. Only 2 months later the Supreme Court struck them […]
Labour City Lawyers Launch
The new Labour City Lawyers network was launched on Wednesday 21 March 2018. Over 20 SLL members joined Jonathan Reynolds MP, the shadow City minister, for a round-table discussion. On Brexit, attendees were keen to obtain assurances on maintaining passporting rights for the financial services. Jonathan was keen to stress that Labour cannot reject the […]