Legally Feminist

Lauren and Tara are joined by Tania Hardcastle from Brown Don't Frown Podcast to discuss diversity in the law, unconventional career paths, and wonder just how accessible the new SQE really is. 

In this episode, Lauren speaks with the co-founder of The View Magazine, Farah Damji. They talk about how The View came to exist, about mental health provision for women in prison, and their upcoming court case for which they are fundraising. 

In this episode, Ellie is joined by fellow breastfeeding mother Julia Cooper, who is campaigning with MPs Jeff Smith and Stella Creasy to change the law to make illegal the taking images of breastfeeding without consent.

In this episode, Lauren and Tara return to the issue of disclosure in the CPS, and talk about the CWJ and EVAW coalition judicial review case, RASSO 2025, and the cases of Liam Allan and John Worboys. Trigger warning - this episode discusses rape. 

In this episode, Billy, Lauren, and Tara get together to discuss the events of the last few weeks, from the tragic murder of Sarah Everard, to happier news on the other side of the world with New Zealand's new bereavement laws. 

Billy, Ellie, Lauren, and Tara are back. After a short break, the girls are reunited and discussing the impact of the pandemic on women. We talk about pregnant women, self-employed mothers, home-schooling mothers, the vaccine, the public sector, and that dodgy government ad. 

In this episode, Lauren and Tara discuss the Vice-President elect, Kamala Harris, celebrating her achievements, but also exploring some of her controversies. They also touch upon the importance of Stacey Abrams in her campaign to galvanize the voting population of Georgia. 

In this episode we look at how new covid face-covering regulations are at odds with existing laws on face coverings for Muslim women. To tell us more about this intersectionality of sexism and Islamophobia, Lauren is joined by Adelah Bilal of the Black Muslim Women's Healing Collective.

In this episode, Lauren and Tara set the scene to explore the End Violence Against Women Coalition's judicial review challenge against the CPS, and how pre-trial disclosure failings lead to the collapse of cases, including that of Liam Allan in 2017.

Lauren and Tara interrupt the Legally Feminist scheduling with a special episode celebrating the life and legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. This episode looks back on RBG's remarkable life and some of her most famous cases, but also looks forward to what her vacancy could mean for the future of the United States Supreme Court and the country as a whole. 

In part two of our sex workers' rights series, Billy interviews Stacey Clare of the East London Strippers ' Collective.

In this episode Lauren and Tara discuss why climate change is not a gender-neutral issue, and talk about the importance of General Recommendation 37 of the Convention for the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women, also known as CEDAW.

In this episode, Billy interviews Dr Katie Cruz, Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol, co-ordinating Editor of the Feminist Legal Studies Journal, and the new Co-Director of the Bristol Centre for Law at Work, on feminism and sex workers’ rights under the law.

Episode Six is PART TWO of our Women in Prison series. This time, Ellie and Lauren discuss Elizabeth Fry and the Corston Report in the context of prisons reforms both old and new. They also take a look at the treatment of mothers in prison, and the impact on their children.

In this episode, Ellie and Lauren talk about the current female prison population, the disparity in treatment between white and BAME female offenders, and speak with Alexandra, a woman who works with male offenders on creative writing.

After a short break, the Legally Feminist ladies are back! In this episode Lauren and Tara discuss some of the world's best leaders and law makers, online abuse directed at female politicians, and how much they love Jacinda Ardern. 

Hello listeners...just a brief message from us to let you know we're taking a short break, but will be back soon!

In this episode, Billy and Ellie discuss the life, career and significant cases of Lady Hale. 

In this episode, Lauren and Tara discuss how defences to murder (loss of control and the 'rough sex' defence) are still unfairly weighted towards men and look in closer detail at the case of Natalie Connolly. 

Here is the first installment of the Legally Feminist podcast, where we put the Lady back in Justice. In this episode, the Legally Feminist team - Billy, Ellie, Lauren and Tara - will introduce themselves and discuss feminism, the law and career aspirations, as well as letting you know what's in store for the podcast.