This month, Louise Crick and Gemma Adams of Tuckers Kent Branch attended the Inspiring Women in Law event at Canterbury Christchurch University. Both Louise and Gemma are studying with the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives. Emma Palmer, the President of the Kent Law Society and Gowri Nanayakkara, Senior Lecturer at Canterbury Christchurch University co-hosted the evening. Emma and Gowri gave detail about the journey of the first female solicitors and barristers, since t

Recently I defended in a trial which lasted for over four months. The case involved a county lines operation in which four defendants were charged with possessing Class A drugs with intent to supply (‘PWITS’) and trafficking offences under s. 2 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015. Two of the six counts were the subject of successful submissions of no case to answer – these were the counts containing the trafficking offences. The remaining counts related to separate but adjacent pe

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