Episode 002-Lawyers and party politics: the legal profession view of the general election manifestos

Anthony Speaight, QC, chairman of research at the Society of Conservative Lawyers, John Cooper, QC, an advisor to the Access to Justice Commission chaired by a former Labour attorney-general, and James Sandbach, the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Suffolk Coastal and policy secretary for Lib Dem Lawyers, make the case for how the parties they support would reform and uphold the justice system.Jonathan Ames and Frances Gibb give a round-up of the week's news, and Linda Tsang interviews Jonathan Fisher, QC, our lawyer of the week.

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