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Emily-Jade Defriend

Emily-Jade Defriend is a solicitor specialising in human rights, inquests and public inquiries at Bindmans LLP

April 2020

  • UK In Fifth Week Of Coronavirus Lockdown<br>LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - APRIL 21: NHS workers in PPE take a patient with an unknown condition to an ambulance at Queens Hospital on April 21, 2020 in London, England. The British government has extended the lockdown restrictions first introduced on March 23 that are meant to slow the spread of COVID-19. (Photo by Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)

    Has the government broken the law by putting NHS staff in harm's way?

    Stephen Cragg and Emily-Jade Defriend
    If there have been systemic flaws over PPE, ministers could be in breach of the European convention on human rights, say Stephen Cragg, a barrister, and Emily-Jade Defriend, a solicitor
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