{"id":120512,"date":"2025-05-27T13:07:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T21:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=120512"},"modified":"2025-05-27T13:07:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T21:07:18","slug":"more-than-800-lawyers-in-uk-call-on-government-to-impose-sanctions-on-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/27\/more-than-800-lawyers-in-uk-call-on-government-to-impose-sanctions-on-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 800 Lawyers in UK Call On Government to Impose Sanctions On Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Signatories include partners from Mishcon de Reya, McDermott Will & Emery and Pennington Manches Cooper.<\/p>\n

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An open letter <\/a>signed by over eight hundred lawyers, barristers, academics and both former and current senior judges, has said the U.K. must take further steps, including the imposition of trade sanctions upon Israel, to prevent the \u201cworsening catastophe\u201d ensuing in Palestine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The letter, published on Monday, has been signed by 829 members of the legal community including Mishcon de Reya competition partner Wessen Jazrawi, McDermott Will & Emery partner Shah Jahan H. Khandokar\u2014who signed in a personal capacity without association to his firm\u2014Pennington Manches Cooper partner Hazar El-Chamaa, as well as a number of Leigh Day partners, including co-founder and senior partner Martyn Day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Signatories include partners from Mishcon de Reya, McDermott Will & Emery and Pennington Manches Cooper. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 An open letter signed by over eight hundred lawyers, barristers, academics and both former and current senior judges, has said the U.K. must take further steps, including the imposition of trade sanctions upon Israel, to prevent the \u201cworsening catastophe\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":120513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/legal-news-Ox65EW.jpeg?fit=768%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120520,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120512\/revisions\/120520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}