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Sarah Langford on the importance of meaningful work, and how not to change someone's mind

The Sacred

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Criminal Barristers and Family Law Lawyers

I think there were so many double standards about how the law protects people who are born into privilege and doesn't necessarily protect the people who are not. I would see it in my family cases with parenting you know where I would spend the weekend or have friends affluently negligent with their kids but then cross-examining a social worker on whether ginger beer would put my client in breach of her non-alcohol rule for example. There was a two-tier system being applied to people and I realized how much people's privilege protects them from that. The whole system is not as far removed from your life as you think it is could you say a bit more why you think it's

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