It was really wonderful to join the London Sunday Assembly, at the great Conway Hall, on Sunday 5th March 2023, to speak about “Embracing Equity”, the theme of this year’s International Womens Day celebrations. My contribution is just after 35 minutes HERE.
What an honour to participate in the main symposium of the UK country visit of the United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent organised by fellow barrister and UN Fellow Priscellia Robinson on Saturday 21st January 2023.
Over the course of the afternoon and evening, Ms Barbara Reynolds and her UN colleagues listened to heartfelt evidence and testimony from a wide range of Black British voices, spanning civil society, on issues concerning education, health, housing, the environment, data, culture, youth, criminal justice and more.
The symposium, held at the University of West London, was just one of a series of events the working group is holding as part of its UK visit.
I am really happy to have moved to Staple Inn Chambers, my new barrister home, where I will be clerked by my old Senior Clerk Lee Williams. Great clerks are worth their weight in gold and Lee gave me so much unstinting support during my pupillage. I am delighted to be working with him again! My Staple Inn Chambers’ profile is available to read here.
This morning I was heartbroken to attend – via livestream – the funeral of Ken Rogers, former Head of Chambers at the former Invictus Chambers.
Ken changed the course of my life forever. After having had my first pupillage offer withdrawn in 2013 and then the second chambers I was supposed to undertake pupillage with collapsing in 2017, Ken kept my dream of going to the Bar alive by taking me in at Invictus Chambers in 2018. Continue reading “Thank you, Ken Rogers”
I’ve been interviewed for Legal Action Magazine’s At The Bar column. You can read the interview HERE.