Junior barrister Alexandra Wilson made the news when she revealed how she’d repeatedly been mistaken for a defendant in court simply because she is black. She tells Dorian Lynskey about life as a black barrister in an overwhelmingly white system, what the courts need to do about criminalising people of colour, and what drove her new book In Black and White: A Young Barrister's Story Of Race And Class In A Broken Justice System.

“I’ve had a lawyer tell me that ‘black people are good for business - because they keep killing one another.”
“Until it affects you, people don’t really know how the court system works”
“From the outside, our profession looks as elite as it can get”
“Institutions are only going change if there is a culture shift”
“There has been a misunderstanding of the role of lawyers, our job is to fight for our clients”

Presented by Dorian Lynskey. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production

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