🎙️ the lawmanity podcast🎙️
And how do activists use the law to create change?
The Lawmanity podcast, hosted by human rights lawyer Jen Ang, brings you one-to-one interviews with activists and lawyers across the UK who are using the law in creative ways to secure justice for people and communities who are excluded, discriminated against and overlooked. ✊🏽
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Equal Under the Law: What Does Justice Look LIKe? (Pt 3)
In this third episode of our special series, ‘Equal under the Law?’, we delve into the complex relationship between law and social justice through the voices of inspiring activists from Scotland. We explore the pivotal question: “What does justice look like – for you, and for your community?”
This episode features: Heather Fisken, Tressa Burke, Pheona Matovu, Satwat Rehman, Talat Yaqoob, Pinar Aksu, Davie Donaldson and Amanda Amaeshi.
Equal Under the Law: Is the Law a Tool or a barrier to change? (Pt 2)
In this second episode of our special series, ‘Equal under the Law?’, we explore whether the law serves as a barrier or a tool for marginalised communities striving for equality, with a little help our expert panel of 11 inspiring activist leaders from Scotland.
This episode features: Talat Yaqoob, Pinar Aksu, Tim Hopkins, Pheona Matovu, Satwat Rehman, Amanda Amaeshi, Tressa Burke, Heather Fisken and Sandy Brindley.
Equal Under the Law: Does the law treat you equally? (Pt 1)
In this first episode of our special series, “Equal under the Law?,” we delve into the complex relationship between law and social justice through the voices of inspiring activists from Scotland. We explore the pivotal question: “Does the law treat you and your community equally?”.
This episode features: Pheona Matovu, Satwat Rehman, and Pinar Aksu, Talat Yaqoob, Tim Hopkins, Sandy Brindley, Tressa Burke and Heather Fisken.
climate justice: The Stop Whitehead Oil Terminal Case, with Maria McCloskey
This week, we talking to activist lawyer, Maria McCloskey, former director of Public Interest Litigation Support in Belfast, NI about how she worked with grassroots climate justice activists to bring a successful legal challenge that stopped plans to develop a major fossil fuel terminal in a quiet seaside town near Belfast.
Breaking Barriers: access to education for young migrants, with andy sirel
This week, we’re speaking to Andy Sirel, Legal Director at JustRight Scotland, about a legal challenge that secured access to further and higher education for potentially thousands of young people in Scotland.
Justice for Women Who Kill,
with Harriet Wistrich
This week, we’re talking to activist lawyer, Harriet Wistrich, founder of the Centre for Women’s Justice about her decades-long commitment to seeking justice for women who kill their abusive partners, and her determined fight for justice for women, in a system designed for men.
lgbt+ rights in scotland,
with tim hopkins
This week, we sit down with legendary LGBT+ activist, Tim Hopkins, former director of the Equality Network, to explore the complex relationship between activism and the law in the fight to achieve equality for LGBT+ people in Scotland, from the 1980s to the present.
Challenging the uk Govt’s rwanda policy, with Alison Pickup
This week, we’re talking to Alison Pickup, Director of Asylum Aid, to hear all about how she and her colleagues led a successful campaign to challenge the UK Government’s Rwanda policy, that went all the way to the UK Supreme Court.