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The Guardian
23-05-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
‘All other avenues have been exhausted': Is legal action the only way to save the planet?
Monica Feria-Tinta is one of a growing number of lawyers using the courts to make governments around the world take action By Samira Shackle. Read by Díana Bermudez
Times
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Times
US law firms have ways of making partners support Republicans
Jousting between the Trump administration and large US law firms has prompted one former partner at the London office of a 'white shoe' practice to recall that American lawyers have historically been party political. That lawyer related recently to Times Law spies that the firm would annually deduct $1,000 from each partner, which would then be donated to the Republican Party. The senior management was said to be particularly keen on George W Bush and that donation was imposed regardless of whether individual partners were supporters of the Democrats or any other party — and regardless of whether they were US citizens. Guests at the launch of the book A Barrister for the Earth, by the Peruvian-born Monica Feria-Tinta, were treated to a novel
Times
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Times
Monica Feria-Tinta: ‘You can't separate humans from nature'
Monica Feria-Tinta is passionate about the 'power of the law to create change and redress the environmental harm and ecological degradation' caused by mankind. The Peruvian barrister has been a pioneer in the 'quiet revolution' over the past decade as ordinary people have turned to the courts to fight the damage done to 'power western civilisation' at the expense of the natural world. Feria-Tinta has represented indigenous people from the Torres Strait against the government of Australia in a precedent-setting case in which a court ruled that state failings on the climate crisis violated their human rights. And the barrister has represented rivers, a cloud forest and endangered species, becoming what she calls herself in the title of her recently published book, A Barrister for
