Dame Laura Cox KC on sex equality in the UK, and at the Bar of England and Wales – Part 2

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Interviewee: Justin Winchester

Justin is a DPhil Law candidate researching positive duties to promote and achieve equality funded by a Rhodes Scholarship. Justin holds a BCom (2019) and an LLB (2021) from the University of Cape Town and a BCL (2022/23) from Oxford. Justin previously worked in research and strategic human-rights litigation whilst a Litigation Fellow at the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI). He has published articles on equality, human rights, and administrative law.

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Interviewer: Justin Winchester

Justin is a DPhil Law candidate researching positive duties to promote and achieve equality funded by a Rhodes Scholarship. Justin holds a BCom (2019) and an LLB (2021) from the University of Cape Town and a BCL (2022/23) from Oxford. Justin previously worked in research and strategic human-rights litigation whilst a Litigation Fellow at the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI). He has published articles on equality, human rights, and administrative law.

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In the second episode of this two-part series, Justin Winchester speaks to Dame Laura Cox KC — a Justice of the England and Wales High Court between 2002 and 2016, and former Chairperson of the Bar Council Sex Discrimination Committee — about women’s equality in the United Kingdom.

Join us for a reflective discussion prompted by Baroness Harman’s 2025 Independent report on bullying, harassment, and sexual harassment at the Bar.

RightsUp is brought to you by the Oxford Human Rights Hub.
Executive produced by Meghan Campbell.
Hosted by Justin Winchester.
Produced and edited by Sophie Smith.
Music for the series is by Rosemary Allman.

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