Press Releases
Lawyers are Responsible Press Release: 26 April 2023
Lawyers are Responsible Press Release: 29 March 2023
Supplementary statements
Lawyers are Responsible statement in response to media coverage, 27 March 2023
Media Coverage
Protestors target Linklaters London office over fossil fuels work
for Law.com
Quit top ‘climate offender’ firms, say lawyers
by Monidipa Fouzder for the Law Gazette, 26 June 2024
Matt Hutchings KC on a year of moonlighting as a climate activist while practising as a lawyer
by Matt Hutchings for The Barrister, 27 February 2024
How to blow up a (talent) pipeline
by Monika Sobiecki and Natalie Barbosa for The Lawyer, 13 December 2023
Slaughter and May Agrees to Meet Lawyer Climate Pressure Group
by Jack Womack for Law.com, 11 September 2023
Magic circle firm agrees to meet lawyer eco-campaigners
by Neil Rose for Legal Futures, 11 September 2023
Professionals must refuse to work on new fossil fuel projects
by Andrew Watterson for BMJ, 1 September 2023
Big firms to assess impact of their advice on climate change
by Neil Rose for Legal Futures, 23 June 2023
Climate Activist Lawyers to Target Magic Circle Recruitment
by Jack Womack for Law.com, June 2023 (paywall)
Lawyer eco-campaigners urge City giant to stop fossil fuel work
by Neil Rose for Legal Futures, 1 June 2023
Lawyers against the climate crisis
by Yola Verbruggen for the International Bar Association, 26 May 2023
London law firms facilitated £1.48 trillion for fossil fuel companies – analysis
by Danny Halpin for the Independent, 10 May 2023
UK lawyers’ climate pledge reverberates around the world
by Isabella Kaminski for the Lancet, 9 May 2023
Society Watch: The leading UK lawyers who are refusing to work for fossil-fuel clients
by Mark Hillsdon for the Sustainable Business Review, a part of Thomson Reuters, 2 May 2023
Cab Rank Rule Is ‘A Bedrock Obligation,’ Bar Chair Says
by Lucia Osborne-Crowley for the Law360, 28 April 2023
Lawyers ‘Genuinely Afflicted by Conscience’ Should Not Represent Fossil Fuel Interests
by Rachel Donald for the Byline Times, 27 April 2023
‘Milestone’ Guidance on Climate Change: Solicitors ‘Not Obliged to Provide Advice’ to Big Polluters
by Max Colbert for the Byline Times, 20 April 2023
Law Society: Climate change a “valid” reason to reject clients
by Nick Hilborne for Legal Futures, 19 April 2023
The Climate Crisis and the Cab Rank Rule
by Sir Geoffrey Bindman for the New Law Journal, 7 April 2023
Cab rank rule ‘should be scrapped’
by Catherine Baksi for the Times, 6 April 2023
Barristers object to being accessories to killing people by fossil fuels
by Catherine Baksi for the Times, 6 April 2023
Top lawyers refuse to prosecute climate protestors
by James Dennison for the Roll on Friday, 31 March 2023
Lawyer eco group which sparked cab rank rule row pushes ahead with ‘declaration of conscience’
by Emily Hinkley for the Legal Cheek, 29 March 2023
Professional vandalism or conscientious objection: UK lawyers’ eco-declaration sparks national debate over ‘cab-rank’ rule
by Victoria Basham and John Malpas for the Global Legal Post, 28 March 2023
Lights out at the rank?
by Richard Moorhead for the Legal Futures, 27 March 2023
UK lawyers sign ‘declaration of conscience’ over climate emergency
(byline omitted) for the Irish Legal News, 27 March 2023
Cool rules for a hot debate
by Jonathan Goldsmith for the Law Gazette, 27 March 2023
In Landmark Pledge, British Lawyers Say They Won’t Act in the Interest of Fossil Fuels
by Margaret Osborne for the Smithsonian, 27 March 2023
We won’t prosecute eco-activist protesters, say top lawyers
by Debra Hunter for the Wales Online, 24 March 2023
Britain’s Top Lawyers Sign Climate Declaration Refusing to Prosecute Activists
by Rachel Donald for the Byline Times, 24 March 2023
Top lawyers defy bar to declare they will not prosecute peaceful climate protesters
by Damien Gayle for the Guardian, 24 March 2023
Why I’m joining more than 100 lawyers in refusing to prosecute climate protesters
by Jolyon Maugham for the Guardian, 24 March 2023
NI lawyer among 100 pledging not to prosecute peaceful climate protestors
by Shauna Corr for the Belfast Live, 24 March 2023