Law on Trial: Caoilfhionn Gallagher, KC, on defending pro-democracy campaigners and journalists

In the first episode of season three, Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC, a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, and member of an international legal team alongside Amal Clooney, discusses some of dangers her clients face from spurious lawsuits by State actors.

Gallagher also discusses the case of Jimmy Lai, a Hong Kong pro democracy campaigner, and Maria Ressa, a Nobel Peace Prize winning journalist, who is facing decades in prison in the Philippines.

Hosts Catherine Sanz and ...