Jenrick Demands Law Society Withdraws Mad New ‘Race & Ethnicity’ Guidance – Guido Fawkes

EXC: Jenrick Demands Law Society Withdraws Mad New ‘Race & Ethnicity’ Guidance

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After Guido exclusively revealed the Law Society’s new barmy ‘race and ethnicity’ guidance to England & Wales’ solicitors Robert Jenrick has written to them to demand they withdraw it. The guidance is eyebrow-raising to say the least…

The Shadow Justice Secretary says in his letter to Law Society president Richard Atkinson:

“This guidance runs contrary to the principle of equal treatment and equality before the law. Instead, it seeks to divide people on the basis of race and ethnicity. Worse, the guidance also promotes fringe ideas, including the labelling of ethnic minority groups as the “global majority”, and the idea that race is “a categorisation based in white supremacy… developed as an attempt to prove biological superiority”. These are the same dangerous ideas that have been used to attempt to engineer two-tier justice, whereby minority groups are treated more leniently in our legal system.”

He points out this kind of thinking has not lasted long as of late in the face of public scrutiny:

“Such was the opposition to the Sentencing Council’s two-tier guidelines in Parliament, and in the country, that specific legislation has been passed to strike them down. In the same vein, following concerns raised by myself and others, the Bar Council has backed down on its proposals to introduce a core duty to require barristers to ‘act in a way that advances equality, diversity, and inclusion.’”

Jenrick says the Law Society should “withdraw this guidance immediately” because “as the representative body of solicitors, the Society should be seeking to promote the core tenets of our legal system – including equality before the law, and the principle that everybody should be treated equally, regardless of race.” Didn’t we agree that a while ago?

Read the full letter below: