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Presidential Year Plan of Nick Emmerson

We are delighted that the recently inaugurated President of The Law Society of England and Wales, Nick Emmerson, has included a proposed modernisation of the portraiture at the Chancery Lane headquarters.

In the first issue of Legal Women, in October 2020, we wrote how important it was for the Society’s portraiture to be fully representative of our profession and urged a review. https://issuu.com/benham/docs/1817_legal_women_ launch_2020__lr_

In an article ‘Women made visible’ we looked at the portraiture used in the three jurisdictions of the UK Legal Women September 2021 by Benham Publishing LimitedIssuu

And in May 2022 Katie Broomfield considered the visibility at the Inns of Court in London

https://issuu.com/benham/docs/legal_women_may_2022

You can see the full plan here nick-emmerson-presidential-yearplan-2023-24.pdf and it provides:

“Part of providing value to individuals and access to justice means ensuring the complexity and diversity of the profession accurately reflects the people it serves, from the high street to the high court.

The president will support and prioritise diversity and inclusion work throughout his year, particularly those initiatives linked to social mobility and judicial diversity. Further to this, he will create an advisory group of art and heritage experts to provide guidance on the best way to modernise our portraiture collection at 113 Chancery Lane. Over half of our members are women and many members come from many different ethnic and social backgrounds, but the Law Society Hall does not currently reflect the vibrancy and diversity of our members”.

PETITION:

Petition: will you help?

This petition asks for the government to introduce a minimum of 10 days statutory paid leave for victims of domestic abuse. A change already introduced in New Zealand, Australia and the Republic of Ireland. Offering paid statutory leave for victims of domestic abuse gives some space for the individual to reset. For more background you can read the article by Nailah Kausar on page 17.

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