Lawyer. Expertise in human rights; journalist safety; arbitrary detention; child rights. 🇮🇪 Special Rapporteur on Child Protection &
@_IHREC
Commissioner.
In Oslo Town Hall to celebrate our inspirational, brilliant client,
@mariaressa
. Shortly she will be awarded the
#NobelPeacePrize
along with Dmitry Muratov. This is such an important moment for Maria,
@rapplerdotcom
& the Philippines, & for journalists globally.
#HoldTheLine
Sorry, what?!
@BBCNews
now have Alan Dershowitz on to analyse
#GhislaineMaxwell
’s conviction, without any reference to his background;he’s simply introduced as “constitutional lawyer” as if he’s a neutral expert. Shocked. Utterly bizarre decision & does the audience a disservice.
Today I met a police officer about death threats I’ve got for being a human rights lawyer.
Today I read the PM’s words criticising lawyers representing asylum seekers.
These things are not unrelated.
This Government is undermining the rule of law, & putting us all at risk.
This morning I find myself agreeing with the Daily Mail front page, enthusiastically liking most of
@piersmorgan
’s twitter feed, inwardly cheering
@JuliaHB1
, & concluding that Church of England bishops speak for me. The world is upside down.
#dominiccummings
2 years since a young woman gave birth in HMP Bronzefield & her baby died. The Prison & Probation Ombudsman has released a damning report today.
‘Ms A’ called for help repeatedly & was ignored. After delivering her own baby,she bit through the umbilical cord & wiped up blood. 1/
Today is the 99th anniversary of something remarkable happening: on 28 December 1918 the first woman MP was elected to the House of Commons. She was an Irishwoman, a nationalist, a revolutionary & a suffragette: Constance Markievicz, ‘the Rebel Countess.’ (Thread - a long one)
It’s the choice to interview him,but more importantly 1)not contextualising in any way: no mention of Dershowitz having acted for Epstein,or that Virginia Giuffre accused him of abuse,or the defamation suits,& 2)giving him a platform to undermine Giuffre, unchallenged. Appalling.
I’m adding to this 🧵 given some replies simply to say that I’m generally an admirer of BBC editorial standards, & as a media lawyer I understand pressures with breaking news stories. But in my view there were many mistakes here. I hope
@BBCNews
will acknowledge this & apologise.
Shame on
@Newsweek
& writer John Mac Ghlionn. Their ‘hot take’ on why
#TaylorSwift
is not a role model is misogynistic, sexist & frankly idiotic.
Number of times they have written about 34-year-old unmarried & “childless” male celebrities?
Zero.
So
@BBCNews
has decided that the expert witness they need on the Maxwell trial is Alan Dershowitz. Who has taken the opportunity to say that it shows how accusations against him and Prince Andrew are wrong.
HMP Bronzefield & the MoJ have much to answer for here. But there’s also the fundamental question about why this young woman, heavily pregnant, was in prison in the first place, held by the State in a prison incapable of meeting the needs of her & her baby. 6/
Parts of today’s report are absolutely horrific. This was a young, scared woman, aged 18, in prison for the first time - in the care of the State. She asked for a nurse, twice. No one came. She gave birth alone, in her locked cell, & passed out from the pain. 2/
*She bit through her own umbilical cord.* You read that correctly. She tried to mop up the blood. She put the placenta in the bin. And she got back into bed with her baby, who was purple & not breathing. Still no one came. She was discovered at 8am. 3/
PPO: “all pregnancies in prison should be treated as high risk by virtue of the fact that the woman is locked behind a door... In addition, likely to be a higher percentage of ‘avoidant’ mothers who have experienced trauma & are fearful of engaging with maternity care.” 5/
10 years since Savita Halappanavar died an entirely avoidable death, a victim of Ireland’s draconian anti-abortion laws.
Tomorrow, we ask the Irish community in London to join us in remembrance of Savita.
Saturday 29 October
3pm, Irish Embassy
#NeverAgain
#SavitaHalappanavar
@MarinaSergides
@BBCNews
I agree, Marina. I was similarly horrified & couldn’t believe what I was watching. It was self-serving and he should have been pulled up on it instantly. The BBC should not allow itself to be used as a platform for spin like this by someone presented as if he’s neutral.
Today’s PPO report makes grim reading, but sadly much of it is v.familiar to those of us who have acted for pregnant women in custody, or babies born to women in custody. These are systemic, long-standing failures: poor info sharing, no coordination, inadequate maternity care. 4/
I love London for lots of reasons. But today, I love it because
@CountBinface
, whose policies include “Thames Water bosses to be made to take a dip in the Thames, to see how they like it” & “Claudia Winkleman's fringe to be Grade I listed” has beaten the Britain First candidate👏
I know my name is unusual. I don’t expect people to automatically know I’m female from it without context/checking. But a very striking thing:since taking silk,people assume I’m male far more often. This week alone, I’ve had 4 separate messages to “Mr Caoilfhionn Gallagher QC” 1/
This thread is horrifying.
@brokenbottleboy
reports that
@metpoliceuk
arrested members of
@CityWestminster
Night Stars safety team who help women & vulnerable people at risk.
He reports they were held because they’d items which could make noise & cause disruption:
Rape Alarms.
The Met arrested members of the City of Westminster’s Night Safety team. They are volunteers. They were pulled last night at 2am and have been held for 14 hours. One of them came out of the station in tears. Police didn’t apologise.
Daily Mail, 2017: “Never mind Brexit, who won Legs-It!” (or
@NicolaSturgeon
&
@theresa_may
have legs?)
2022: “Tories accuse Rayner of Basic Instinct ploy to distract Boris” (
@AngelaRayner
also has legs & this must be why she bests him at PMQs?)
Demeaning, misogynistic, sexist.
➡️PPO release
➡️PPO report
➡️
@INQUEST_ORG
response (incl quotes from
@DebatINQUEST
& Elaine Macdonald
@TuckersLaw
, who acts for Ms A).
Thinking tonight of Ms A & the child she lost. Horrendous. RIP.
7/
It was a privilege to speak to
@amanpour
this week, about the erosion of the rule of law and media freedom in
#HongKong
& the legal harassment of
#JimmyLai
.
Thank you
@amanpour
@cnni
for telling this story.
And today, as expected, yet another sentence:
"It's deeply disappointing that the UK government has been so quiet on this fundamentally shocking case, which involves a UK national."
The words of
@caoilfhionnanna
who is representing pro democracy activist Jimmy Lai. Lai is currently imprisoned in Hong Kong.
@PippaRoge
I agree, Pippa. One of the richest countries in the world, in 2019. It beggars belief. She was on remand at the time - not even convicted of anything.
Today we filed an urgent
@UN_SPExperts
appeal for our client, Jimmy Lai, over the legal harassment he faces in Hong Kong due to his advocacy of democracy, right to protest & freedom of expression.
The appeal also highlights intimidatory tactics used against Mr Lai’s lawyers.
1/
Pleased to see this swift statement from
@BBCNewsPR
today. These are the points I made in my complaint last night (& I assume many others did too). Thank you. (Posting here as well as a new tweet so it can be seen easily by anyone catching up on the 🧵)
#GhislaineMaxwell
@BBCNews
“Conservatives have claimed that Angela Rayner likes to put Mr Johnson ‘off his stride’ in the chamber by crossing and uncrossing her legs when they clash at PMQs.”
This piece drips with misogyny & snobbishness. Clearly some Tory MPs have a problem with women in public life.
1/
6 years ago I got to say “there’s one for everyone in the audience” at my silk party. In 2017 as an immigrant & human rights lawyer I felt doubly unwelcome. I wanted to show pride in being what Gov’t insulted.
In 2023, I remain an activist left-wing human rights lawyer, & proud.
9/9 Constance Markievicz did many remarkable & controversial things before & after 28 Dec 1908, not touched on in this thread. I’ve posted this today because her achievement 99 years ago should be remembered & respected.It was a landmark day for women’s rights in the UK & Ireland
Urgh. Have awoken to:
- A vile threat of dismemberment & rape
- Multiple hacking attempts on my email - & on LinkedIn
- More trolling messages on X
As ever, it makes me more determined to continue doing my job. And it’s a reminder of some of the v. unpleasant people out there.
Such fantastic news for our client ‘A’ this morning, after many years. The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the UK;
#BedroomTax
/ bedroom size criteria unlawfully discriminates against vulnerable victims of domestic violence. Here’s a summary from the legal team.
Such a privilege to be receiving this award tomorrow from
@PresidentIRL
. I cannot quite believe it. Imposter syndrome feelings are high tonight, combined with childhood-Christmas-Eve nerves...
Thank you so much to
@dfatirl
@irelandembgb
& all involved in the nomination.
#PDSA23
Caio Benicio, the man who stepped in to stop the attack today, without a second’s thought for his own safety, is an immigrant.
Caio Benicio is a brave Dubliner.
The anti-immigrant thugs on the streets tonight, looting shops & setting fires, are anything but.
#Dublin
'It was pure instinct': Brazilian Deliveroo driver tells of moment he stopped Parnell Street attacker
Interview by
@eimer_mcauley
who is reporting for
@thejournal_ie
from Dublin:
Jimmy Lai is a 'renowned media entrepreneur, pro-democracy campaigner and writer, and he was a huge figure in terms of standing up and speaking truth to power in
#HongKong
' says
@caoilfhionnanna
as she speaks to VOA ahead of Lai's fraud verdict
Deep breath. Síomha has been writing poetry/stories/songs for years, quietly, in her room, & (sometimes) sharing with us. She took the plunge & entered a competition recently & being shortlisted has inspired her to share some of her work. Here’s a poem she thinks you might like.
“Who’d want to shag that?”
Hideous, revolting, misogynistic stuff from Laurence Fox, demeaning a woman he disagrees with by ref to whether or not he’d sleep with her.
Horrifying that it was broadcast - & with such glib “balance” comments tacked on. Solidarity with
@AvaSantina
.
Anoosheh Ashoori, 68, ran the
#LondonMarathon
in his Evin uniform. When he was unlawfully imprisoned in
#Iran
for 5 yrs, a victim of vile ‘hostage diplomacy,’ he ran in circles in his tiny cell.
He ran yesterday to honour Iran’s prisoners,women & freedom. What an incredible man.
Former Iran detainee Anoosheh Ashoori ran the
#LondonMarathon
in his prisoner’s uniform. He told me he would run for hours each day in his confined cell hoping one day he would run the marathon. He dedicated it to the women of Iran, political prisoners and the freedom of Iran
Kelly Stewart. Murdered as she slept outside a church in East London,& alive during most of the brutal attack that killed her. Thank you
@HennyBeaumont
for painting to remember Kelly,one of 118 women killed by men in the past year. Thank you
@jessphillips
for reading their names.
Thank you for the warm words on my appointment as Special Rapporteur on Child Protection. I am grateful to & inspired by my predecessor,
@ConorUCCLaw
, for such superb work in this role.
This is a critical time for
#ChildRights
& child protection in Ireland. There is much to do.
The Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth,
@rodericogorman
, today announced the appointment by Government of Ms Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC as Special Rapporteur on Child Protection for a 3-year term.
Read the press release here:
Jimmy Lai is a UK citizen, detained in a Hong Kong prison in circumstances which have attracted widespread international condemnation. We ask the UK Government to treat this case with the urgency it deserves & to speak out in support of its citizen.
@RishiSunak
@JamesCleverly
2/
A pleasure to speak to
@MiriamOCal
, whose work I’ve long admired, tonight, about the investigative journalism of
#DaphneCaruanaGalizia
& how her family have fought for justice since her death. Here’s Daphne’s final blog.”The situation is desperate.”
#rtept
Caoilfhionn Gallagher QC tells Miriam O’Callaghan of the drive and determination of Daphne Caruana Galizia's family to get justice for her murder in a case that has shocked Malta’s government by a volley of resignations
#RTEPT
|
@MiriamOCal
|
@caoilfhionnanna
This is hideous to watch. The wink. We know that wink. All women know that wink. Condescending, belittling, a reminder that he thinks he’s better than you.
And then sneering at
@AngelaRayner
for daring to go to the opera.
Snobbery, classism & sexism. It’s all here, folks.
#PMQs
The most disturbing, sexist part of today's
#PMQs
.
First Dominic Raab WINKS at
@AngelaRayner
.
Then he intimates it's absurd for a working class woman to enjoy opera and drink champagne.
If you think Raab is better than Johnson, just watch this.
#PMQs
Today, 4th November, is Jimmy Lai’s birthday. We, his international legal team, condemn his recent conviction for fraud and call on the UK Government to take action to secure his release.
A thread.
#JimmyLai
#HongKong
#FreeJimmyLai
1/
Irish law students:for a while I’ve been considering setting up a summer intern scheme for international human rights law.
Plenty of options for Irish students keen on commercial law but this seems to be a real gap. (Was for me 20 years ago,& still now.) Would there be interest?
Lots of coverage of
@JoshShapiroPA
’s son, who reversed like a pro when he accidentally walked in on a TV interview, but it’s Josh’s inspired
#BookshelfTrolling
that caught my eye:
- The Count
- A postal truck
- A clock set to 1:45 (1 term for 45)
- An RBG menorah
👏
#Elections2020
The South African team at the
#ICJ
was excellent today, incl our
@DoughtyStIntl
colleagues Prof John Dugard SC & Max du Plessis SC, & the brilliant Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh.
Her submissions on “the terrible new acronym” WCNSF (wounded child, no surviving family) are a gutpunch. See:
Irish lawyer Blinne Ni Ghralaigh who is supporting South Africa's legal team at the ICJ, says the number of orphans caused by ‘Israel’s genocidal assault on the Palestinian population in Gaza’ has led to the need for a new acronym: WCNSF - wounded child, no surviving family.
What a headline. “Did living in the shadow of his high achieving wife lead to unthinkable tragedy?” No, no, no. Another victim-blaming headline. His wife’s achievements did not cause fatal male violence here,
@DailyMailUK
.
Sebastien Lai: “I call on the UK Government to take urgent action to protect my dad immediately and secure his freedom. The UK must do all it can to stop this, and do it now.”
@RishiSunak
@JamesCleverly
2/
Ahead of next week’s financial summit in
#HongKong
,
@thecfhk
projected images onto buildings near
#NewYork
’s Financial District urging
#WallStreet
to boycott the event as the
#CCP
continues to egregiously violate human rights.
For a few years we’ve seen a relationship between human rights & football which is deeply concerning: tournaments in countries which abuse human rights; dubious decisions on funding/ownership.
Now something quite different.
The beautiful game.
And it’s beautiful to see.
⚽️
Total disinformation here.
Where to start?
- There’s a difference between pleading guilty & a contested trial?
- There’s a difference between simple matters handled in the magistrates’ courts & more complex matters in the Crown Courts? Almost like - two tiers of court…
Brilliant to see
@BarryKeoghan
win Best Supporting Actor at the
#BAFTAs
tonight, racking up another award for his superlative performance. And awards season is not over yet…
He spent 7 years in foster care,in 13 different foster homes. What an incredible journey. What a talent.
“There goes that dream.” Not quite true for Irish acting talent tonight. 💚
We’re delighted to congratulate Barry Keoghan on his win for Best Supporting Actor for The Banshees of Inisherin at the
#EEBAFTAs
tonight.
#irishtalent
#irelandonscreen
Urgh. Trending this morning...
#WarWithFrance
and Rule Britannia. One of those days when being an Irish person living in England makes you feel like a stranger in a strange land.
A deeply concerning story. Freelance photographer
@andyaitchison
arrested for taking photographs at a protest & given restrictive bail conditions which undermine his ability to do his job. Reminded of a case I acted in 5 years ago, against Russia. Serious
#MediaFreedom
issues. 1/
Utterly damning. Sir Laurie Bristow, UK ambassador to Afghanistan, warned repeatedly that the Taliban would achieve a swift victory, yet Raab went on holiday after his stark warnings (“the gloves are off”). This is the context of the dithering & complacency which cost many lives.
31 Jan 1984: Irish schoolgirl dies of a post-partum haemorrhage after giving birth in a grotto in Granard. A frightened,lonely 15-year-old who had nowhere to turn. Ann Lovett & her son were victims of a culture which shamed women & girls when pregnant “out of wedlock”.
#AnnLovett
This clip of Johnson & Raab is mind-bogglingly awful. Part ‘The Thick of It,’ part ‘Yes Minister’ as the staff explain the incredibly distressing messages they’re receiving.
(And if this is how dismissive & unperceptive they are even though they know they’re being filmed…)
Johnson: Are you the guys inundated with all the emails from everywhere in the world saying, please help my son, mother in Afghanistan? I've had a few of those
Raab: It was extraordinary that they all stayed after the
#KabulAiport
attack
Johnson: Amazing, amazing
#Newsnight
I lead the international legal team for Jimmy Lai,acting with
@J0nathanPrice
@suigenerisjen
.
Our client is a British citizen,imprisoned in Hong Kong despite widespread international condemnation. We call on the UK Government to take immediate,robust action to secure his release.
Today it’s 101 years since the first woman MP was elected to the House of Commons: Constance Markievicz,’The Rebel Countess’ (not Nancy Astor, who was the first woman to take her seat). Here’s a thread I wrote about this fascinating woman a couple of years ago.
#OTD
@ThisDayIrish
Today is the 99th anniversary of something remarkable happening: on 28 December 1918 the first woman MP was elected to the House of Commons. She was an Irishwoman, a nationalist, a revolutionary & a suffragette: Constance Markievicz, ‘the Rebel Countess.’ (Thread - a long one)
PLEASE can people stop conflating pro bono work with human rights work? They’re not the same thing,& treating them as such often means people wading into specialist human rights issues without expertise & making a mess for their clients,but feeling they’re doing good. No. No. No.
Welcome news today -
#Iran
’s Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence given to rapper & campaigner
#ToomajSalehi
.
But he remains behind bars for his art - for his rapping, his music, his words.
Read our statement, & please help to
#FreeToomaj
:
Very saddened to hear of the death of a young black man, George Nkencho, in a fatal police shooting near Dublin today. Thinking of his grieving family. There will be an investigation by the Garda Ombudsman, GSOC; an essential component of Ireland’s Article 2 ECHR obligations. 1/
Today, I am tracking down and dusting off my bag from 2017, complete with the language Theresa May had used in a speech a few months earlier. Very concerning to see the term
#ActivistLawyer
now used as a slur by a government department in an official video for the public.
Men: if you’re asked to speak on an all male panel/manel, you can say no.
Lots of ways to do it: accept on basis you don’t speak on manels; ask about panel composition when 1st invited; object/pull out when told line-up.
If organisers get it wrong, you should not be complicit.
“A small child presented to a specialist outpatient clinic in Dublin suffering from ringworm infestation,iron-deficiency anaemia & severe dental decay that required 10 of her teeth to be extracted.
Her diagnosis? Homelessness.”
She’s 1 of over 4,000 homeless children in Ireland.
There are now more than 4,000 children homeless in Ireland - childhood lasts a lifetime so too does the impact of homelessness on your physical health -When the diagnosis is homelessness, what is the cure?
I am sitting in a cafe in a very posh part of West London, and there’s a lady beside me eating a croissant with a knife and fork. What fresh hell is this?
8/ There’s a rather fantastic story abt Markievicz riding a coach & four into the constituency as a stunt to highlight Churchill’s failure to support women voting.A male heckler from the crowd asked her if she could cook a dinner & she replied,”Yes. Can you drive a coach & four?”
This week I was paid £77 on a legal aid case from 2017 - an important case for a survivor of child sexual abuse.
7 years delay in payment; thousands still outstanding; many hours wasted arguing with the LAA; & the sum is way below minimum wage for the work.
Legal aid is broken.
I’ve long known that the
#PostOfficeScandal
is appalling. Watching
#MrBatesVsThePostOffice
& my blood is boiling. Thinking of all the people behind the stats. The families. The communities.
There must be meaningful accountability & justice for the many, many lives destroyed. 1/
3/ Constance Markievicz stood for election from Holloway Prison. Her gender was the only reason she could do so:she’d been sentenced to death for her part in 1916 Easter Rising but this was commuted as she was a woman.Her response:”I do wish your lot had the decency to shoot me”
I have watched & rewatched these horrifying clips.
@AlfDubs
- a child refugee who fled the Nazis on a Kindertransport - asking Simon Murray
@ukhomeoffice
to explain the removal of murals as they’re “too welcoming for children”; & the Minister’s shameful response.
#childrights
Asked by
@AlfDubs
about disgraceful actions of
@ukhomeoffice
to remove cartoons from Kent reception as they are 'too welcoming for children', Minister says:
'It is the correct decision these facilities have the requisite decoration befitting their purpose'
📢Shameful cruelty
Moved to tears by my dear friend,
@DoughtyStIntl
colleague & mentor
@HelenaKennedyKC
being rightly recognised tonight
#MagnitskyAwards
: Human Rights Defender Lifetime Achievement Award- & giving a speech thanking others.
What an incredible human.
What an amazing lawyer.
Brava 👏
One journalist freed from China,
Meeting the son of a journalist imprisoned by China, in Hong Kong.
A very moving moment earlier this month when Cheng Lei met Sebastien Lai, son of Jimmy Lai & the leader of the
#FreeJimmyLai
@SupportJimmyLai
campaign.
#JournalismIsNotACrime
A statement which Amal Clooney & I have just released on behalf of
@mariaressa
’s international legal team.
The statement responds to today’s welcome ruling from the Court of Tax Appeals, acquitting Maria Ressa of spurious tax charges.
Our response:
@DoughtyStIntl
@ClooneyFDN
We’ve issued a statement on today’s sentencing of Jimmy Lai, with quotes by his son Sebastien & the international legal team.
It is frankly astonishing that we have heard more about this spurious fraud conviction from the US Government than Mr Lai’s own government, the UK.
1/
This is outrageous, &
@joannaccherry
deserves a medal for raising this, chasing it & not accepting the disengenuous answers given so far. Perhaps we should stick the £33 million figure on the side of a bus.
#Brexit
#ferrygate
I warned the U.K. Govt that this would happen repeatedly and they denied it. Now they’ve had to pay £33 million to Eurotunnel over their failure to follow competitive tendering for
#seabornefreight
#ferrygate
#brexitshambles
Good to see
#UniversityChallenge
back, but yet again it’s almost all men. Really, not a single woman in Glasgow University who could add value to this team? And not a single person of colour across both teams... I love the programme in many ways but this has just got to change.
Glad to see that this inane post by
@MerriamWebster
has been deleted.
Once more for the people at the back:
Irish names *are* pronounced the way that they are spelled. In *Irish.* It’s another language…
In the past few months, for doing my job, I’ve had
➡️Online abuse, incl being called cxxt,insults on my appearance,Pat Finucane threat
➡️An angry man at Chambers trying to barge his way in
➡️ A (foreign) newspaper dubbing me & others ‘enemies of the people’ for human rights work.
Horrified to learn (via
@RonanMcCrea
) of treatment of 35 Afghan scholars offered
#Chevening
scholarships & due to start w/in weeks:UK Govt now say they will not grant them visas. Heartbreaking stories at
#Justice4AfghanCheveners
. All of us Chevening alumni should stand with them.
Afghans who received Scholarships from the UK government to study in the UK this year have now been told they will not be granted visas due to "administration issues".
#Chevening
43 years ago, 48 young people went to a nightclub in Artane & never came home.
Anyone who grew up on the Northside in the 1980s remembers that day. It’s disgraceful the families have had to fight for decades for justice.
But today, finally, we start to see
#JFT48
.
#Stardust
Good to hear reports the UK has reversed this inhumane decision,& visas to be expedited for the 35 Afghan
#Chevening
scholars.
@RonanMcCrea
& I wrote to
@DominicRaab
@pritipatel
earlier today, & many fellow alumni now supporting.
We fervently hope this u-turn is not too late.
Horrified to learn (via
@RonanMcCrea
) of treatment of 35 Afghan scholars offered
#Chevening
scholarships & due to start w/in weeks:UK Govt now say they will not grant them visas. Heartbreaking stories at
#Justice4AfghanCheveners
. All of us Chevening alumni should stand with them.
#Jos
éRubénZamora v
#Guatemala
🇬🇹: Urgent Appeal to UN Special Rapporteur on Torture
Mr Zamora is a 67-year-old award-winning journalist & founder of newspaper elPeríodico.
Imprisoned unlawfully for 2 years, he has endured torture & other inhuman or degrading treatment.
🧵
1/
Bravo to
@EssexBarrister
for speaking out about being repeatedly mistaken for a defendant. What a disgrace this is still happening. And unfortunately many disgraceful, dismissive replies to this BBC tweet: “court staff have always been nice to me”/“don’t believe her”/“race card.”
I was told "very loudly to get out of the courtroom"
Black barrister Alexandra Wilson says court staff mistook her for a defendant three times in one day
The same lazy, stereotyped assumptions led to:
- A male junior with me being mistaken for the QC in a meeting
- Someone handing me a coat to take at a conference at which I was a keynote speaker
Regular reminders from the world around us that QCs are assumed to be white men.