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6 October 2020Influential Women in IPDebbie Foster

Tackling the last taboo: disability in law

In January a report from Cardiff Business School, “Legally Disabled? The career experiences of disabled people working in the legal profession”, hit the headlines, proclaiming that disabled lawyers face both overt and unconscious bias on a daily basis.

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