When: Saturday October 22 from 7.30pm to 9pm (includes book signing)
Where: University of Newcastle Conservatorium of Music Concert Hall, cnr Auckland and Laman streets, Cooks Hill
Tickets: $35 (includes booking fee) are on sale now.
Human rights and media lawyer Jennifer Robinson to visit Newcastle
Newcastle Writers Festival is hosting a special evening event on October 22 with internationally respected human rights and media lawyer Jennifer Robinson.
Robinson, a London-based Australian barrister, represented Amber Heard in relation to Johnny Depp’s 2020 defamation case in the United Kingdom and has defended Julian Assange and advised WikiLeaks since 2010.
The event will be hosted by Sydney journalist and former editor of The Saturday Paper Maddison Connaughton and will centre on Robinson’s new book How Many More Women? Exposing How the Law Silences Women, co-written with colleague Dr Keina Yoshida.
Much has been written about how the criminal justice system is failing women – but what about the flood of civil cases that are silencing women? What about the laws that operate, in practice, as gag orders?
In How Many More Women? Robinson and Yoshida examine the broken systems and explore the changes needed to ensure that women’s freedom, including their freedom of speech and right to live free from violence, is no longer threatened by the laws that are supposed to protect them.
Festival director Rosemarie Milsom described Robinson’s book as timely and compelling. “Given the erosion of women’s rights in the United States this year, there is a strong sense that the law is failing. Jennifer’s experiences and observations will be invaluable. The festival is thrilled that Newcastle is included in her national book tour.”
Robinson is a practising barrister at Doughty Street Chambers in London and has acted in key civil liberties, freedom of speech and information cases in the UK, regional courts, international tribunals, and UN special mechanisms.
Please direct any enquires to festival director Rosemarie Milsom
Email: rmilsom@newcastlewritersfestival.org.au | Phone: 0403 041 588
Supported by Creative Newcastle. The Creative Newcastle Program is delivered under the Special Business Rate program with City of Newcastle. With thanks to University of Newcastle and Allen & Unwin Book Publishing.
