Daily: Black barrister, white system

<p>Junior barrister <strong>Alexandra Wilson</strong> made the news when she revealed how she’d repeatedly been mistaken for a defendant in court simply because she is black. She tells <strong>Dorian Lynskey</strong> about life as a black barrister in an overwhelmingly white system, what the courts need to do about criminalising people of colour, and what drove her new book <a href="https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Alexandra-Wilson/In-Black-and-White--A-Young-Barristers-Story-of-Race-and-/25075374" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>In Black and White</em></a><em>: A Young Barrister's Story Of Race And Class In A Broken Justice System</em>.</p><ul><li><em>“I’ve had a lawyer tell me that ‘black people are good for business - because they keep killing one another.”</em></li><li><em>“Until it affects you, people don’t really know how the court system works”</em></li><li><em>“From the outside, our profession looks as elite as it can get”</em></li><li><em>“Institutions are only going change if there is a culture shift”</em></li><li><em>“There has been a misunderstanding of the role of lawyers, our job is to fight for our clients”</em></li></ul><p><em>Presented by Dorian Lynskey. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. </em><strong><em>THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production</em></strong></p> &#10;&nbsp;<br /><hr><p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>