https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/30/activist-lawyers-are-becoming-insufferable/

The legal profession is awash with wannabe activists. Now some are even refusing outright to do their day jobs. Last week, more than 120 lawyers signed a ‘declaration of conscience’, promising not to prosecute climate activists. The declaration states that the barristers will ‘withhold [their] services in respect of supporting new fossil-fuel projects and action against climate protesters exercising their right of peaceful protest’. It goes on to claim that climate change poses a ‘serious risk to the rule of law’. And it calls for others in the legal profession to ‘act urgently’ to address the ‘causes and consequences of the climate and ecological crisis’.