Assumptions that a female black barrister is a defendantArchived Message
Posted by Mary on September 24, 2020, 9:44 pm
'The barrister was first assumed to be standing trial by a security guard, who asked for her name so that he could check that it was on a list of defendants.
A member of the public then took her for a journalist and told her not to enter the court, before an usher who recognised her allowed her to go in to speak to the prosecutor.
In the courtroom, another lawyer as well as the clerk mistook her for a defendant, with the latter asking her whether she was “represented”.'