MTSA & KPUM | Understanding and Altering Asian Discrimination

This event is open to all members of the Inn

Middle Temple Student Association & KPUM are excited to bring you the anniversary QS Understanding and Altering Asian Discrimination, with Jennifer Lee and Master Banton.

Members of Middle Temple can book tickets via this website.
Members of other Inns and KPUM, please book your ticket via Eventbrite HERE

We will be reviewing the rise in Asian discrimination due to the pandemic, focusing on western countries. Looking into:

• How to identify discrimination;
• What is being done to improve it;
• and why it is vital to society that we tackle it.

With the following two speakers:

Jennifer Lee is a family law practitioner at Pump Court Chambers. She specialises in family finance, with a particular focus on high net worth cases involving foreign assets and jurisdictional issues. She also undertakes children work, including surrogacy/ modern families, and is co-head of the Court of Protection Team. She is a member of the FLBA, Resolution and LAWASIA, and sits on Resolution’s ED&I Committee. She is also on the Pupillage & Tenancy Committee in chambers, with a portfolio for pupillages. Jennifer speaks regularly at seminars, and is ranked as a leading junior in Chambers & Partners and in Legal 500.

Master Banton specialises in employment and discrimination law at 7 Bedford Row. As well as dealing with multi-strand discrimination matters, she also advises individuals and public bodies on high-level policy matters. She is a sought-after speaker who also regularly writes about her specialist areas of law.

We look forward to seeing you there.

• Sammy Chen, KPUM President
• Sonia Yong, KPUM Director, Corporate Relations & Outreach
• Victoria Mukungu, MTSA President

You can find out more information about KPUM via their website HERE

This event is open to members of all the Inns.

Click here to see details of the QS Requirements and how to be credited with the QS for this session

Learning Outcomes:

After this session, students should be able to:

• Demonstrate an understanding of some of the challenges faced by Asian people as a collective group in society.
• Illustrate the importance of CD1 & CD8 to the legal profession.
• Explain what positive measures have been taken and where there is still a need for improvement.

Links to the Professional Statement, wider workings of the Bar, administration of justice or a public interest matter

Public interest - This QS relates to equality and race within society and the legal profession.

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