In the summer of 2003, some international Deaf Lawyers had the pleasure of meeting up, at the World Federation of the Deaf conference in Montreal, Canada. Brett Casey (Australia), Faye Kuo (USA), Alison Bryan (UK), Anne Vikkels? (Denmark), Henry Vlug (Canada), Helga Stevens (Belguim), Dr Adam Kosa (Hungary), Professor Marshall Wick (USA), Jennifer Jackson (Canada), [...]
One of our colleagues on Surduslaw has launched his own website: Law Office of Matthew Rafat. Congratulations: it is great to see such an initiative. If you live in the Bay area / Silicon Valley (California), and you are in need of Employment Law advice, you should consider contacting him as your attorney.
Judge orders UPS not to discriminate against deaf drivers An Associated Press article was prominent in some USA media outlets as follows: UPS violates anti-discrimination laws by barring the deaf and hearing impaired from driving parcel delivery trucks, a federal judge ruled Thursday. US District Judge Thelton Henderson said the Atlanta-based company’s practices breach the [...]
Whilst in today’s See Hear programme, there was an item about Deaf people trying to access the legal profession, are you a lawyer, and wondered how you could get involved? If you did watch the programme today or indeed you are just reading this blawg, and are you a solicitor, barrister or law student who [...]
For over 10 years, I have wanted to set up a Deaf Law Centre, with the aim of Deaf clients being able to receive advice in their first language: BSL. This is something that I’ve floated around in various circles, and even wrote my dissertation on the very subject for my LL.B. For years I [...]
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The training contract deadline period for application has now passed for another year. It appears that I have been unsuccessful again this year in securing a training contract, which means that if I am successful next year, I am looking at a 2007 start. I thought it would be useful to give an overview of [...]
Deaf Lawyers UK will get eight minutes of fame on Saturday 16 October 2004′s issue of See Hear, 12.30pm, BBC2. Tune in to see Rob, John, Shobha and Marije in the flesh! Sat 16th October, 12:00pm on BBC TWO Repeated on Tues 19th October, 12.50am on BBC ONE We’ve got a legal theme on this [...]
The Guardian published a special report today about the Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, and the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf, attempts to recruit more women, ethnic minoritiy and solicitor judges to make the judiciary more representative of the general population, because, the article says, the judiciary is overwhelmingly white, middle-aged and male. The article can [...]
Our colleague from across the pond, Matthew Medhi Rafat, has had a letter published in the California Bar Journal, highlighting the fact that disabled attorneys are excluded from the profession on the basis that they are not “economically viable” for many firms. Letters to the Editor can be read here. The letter was sent to [...]