All too often, a plea for equality is unhelpfully construed as a plea for special consideration. The litigation in, and public discourse around, Barton v Wright Hassall LLP [2018], which was determined by the UK Supreme Court today, is a case in point. When we have time to reflect on the wider implications of Barton, we might conclude that a solution to the pressing question of access to justice for litigants in person lies within the field of lawyers’ professional ethics, an

A Review of Deborah Gabriel and Shirley Anne Tate (eds.), Inside the Ivory Tower: Narratives of Women of Colour Surviving and Thriving in British Academia. London: IOE Press. 2017. 152 pp., £24.99 (PB). IBSN: 978-1-85856-849-2. Inside the Ivory Tower is a collection of essays written by 10 academics, all women of colour, which document their experiences of race and gender discrimination within the setting of the UK public university. The narratives are drawn from across the d