The Importance of Being Independent: a regulator and female lawyer's view

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Speaker: Dame Janet Gaymer
This event was recorded on 30 November 2010 in Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Law aspires to independence, and the value of the rule of law is closely associated with that independence. This is the final event in the Independence of Law? lecture series. Janet Gaymer is commissioner for public appointments in England and Wales and former senior partner of Simmons & Simmons.

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