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Podcast: Double Jeopardy - UK Law and Politics
Episode: Diversity, Orwell and the Death of Satire
Description: In this latest episode of Double Jeopardy, Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen are joined by Akua Reindorf KC, a discrimination law expert at Cloisters Chambers, to discuss the Bar Standards Board's proposal to change a core duty of barristers from the requirement that they ‘should not unlawfully discriminate’ (which would be illegal), to a positive duty that they must ‘advance equality, diversity and inclusion in their practices’ (which is not a legal requirement). The trio explore the implications of this change, and of the challenges it presents, not least because of the contested nature of EDI ideol...