Legal profession chiefs normally embrace Pride month as an opportunity to march around central London, but for the second year on the trot the pandemic has forced the celebrations online. However, the Law Society, the Bar Council and the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives — which represent most lawyers in England and Wales — still have a range of remote events planned for Pride month, which started on Tuesday. Undeterred by the row around the law’s links with Stonewall (see feature), Stephanie Boyce, the society’s president, says that “now more than ever it is vital to show the public that the legal profession will constantly and unequivocally support LGBT+ people and their rights”. SponsoredBar has its sayAnyone aged under 18 at the time of

Source: The Times June 02, 2021 23:05 UTC