You Know It's Bad Law When.......?

UK lawyers are traditionally required to accept cases 'without fear or favour'. They generally operate, just like cabbies at the taxi rank, taking the next in line. Jolyon Maughan KC (Director of the Good Law Project) and circa another 100 lawyers have, however, signed a declaration. They will neither act for companies developing new fossil fuel projects nor help prosecute others protesting to try to stop them (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/24/100-lawyers-prosecute-climate-protesters-laws-planet-criminalise). Maughan suggests that that would be supporting laws defending individuals intent on destroying our planet whilst criminalising those trying to protect the destruction. This must make the declaration's signatories the 'lefty lawyers', we are repeatedly warned about by right-wing media and certain vacuous politicians. These signatories, however, actually seem to be folk who recognise bad law when they see it. Unlike most lawyers, they are not prepared to 'sue, grabbit and runne'. Neither will they take big retainers from the well-heeled pro-destruction lobby. Lawyers with a conscience? They actually exist.