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How can you defend a rapist?

This blog post originally appeared on Lucy Reed's Pink Tape blog.   This : "but how CAN you defend a rapist?" is the apocryphal question asked of any lawyer at any dinner party she is daft enough to attend (actually the question is real enough, though I’m...

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Teresa Kirk and the Court of Protection – the end of an “astonishing story”

Teresa Kirk and the Court of Protection – the end of an “astonishing story”

On 14 February 2017, the Daily Mail reported on developments in a Court of Protection case that it has been following for some time: “an astonishing story that has come to represent all that is wrong with Britain’s shadowy Court of Protection.”  The story is that of...

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