Interview

Off balance: How women are still being silenced by the law

A new book by barrister Jennifer Robinson, who represented Amber Heard in Johnny Depp’s British lawsuit against the Sun, and Dr Keina Yoshida, an Irish-Japanese human rights lawyer, examines discrimination against women in law and how to stop it

Keina Yoshida and Jennifer Robinson, human rights lawyers and co-authors of How Many More Women?: the barristers explain how writing about the law’s effect on women still comes with a huge risk. Picture: Daniel Lynch