• 'Discrimination, Disproportionality, and Black Deaths in Custody'

  • Nov 3 2022
  • Length: 38 mins
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'Discrimination, Disproportionality, and Black Deaths in Custody'

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  • Professor Leslie Thomas KC is a human rights and civil liberties barrister. He has appeared in many high-profile cases representing the families of the deceased (Birmingham Pub Bombing Inquests, Grenfell Inquiry, Azelle Rodney, Mark Duggan, Christopher Alder and Sean Rigg). In 2012 he was awarded Legal Aid Barrister of the Year (LALY) and again in 2016 for his work on the Hillsborough disaster. In 2020 he received the award for Outstanding Contribution to D&I in the UK Chambers Bar Awards. He is also former Joint Head of Garden Court Chambers. In 2020 he became the first Black Professor of Law at Gresham College and is a visiting Professor of Law at Goldsmiths. He sits on the Equality Diversity and Inclusion sub-committee for the Inner Temple and the Bar Standards Board Race Equality Task Force. He is also the author of 'Do Right and Fear No One', his autobiography published in 2022.

    This lecture was delivered at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, on 13 October 2022 as part of the series of Law and Race talks.

    Supported by the Centre for Public Law: https://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/
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