Association of Lawyers in Defence of the Unborn (ALDU) motion moved at Law Society AGM July 1981

Correspondence relating to claim that at the Law Society AGM 10 Jul 1980 the Chairman of the Association of Lawyers in Defence of the Unborn moved a motion to urge the DPP to bring criminal proceedings whenever there are grounds for supposing that there has been a breach of the 1967 Abortion Act and that the subject be brought before a committee of the Law Society. Memo from Joanna Chambers to Co-ord lawyers group urging them to do all they can to prevent such a committee being set up, copy of letter to the Law Society from a lawyer against the committee (saying it is not the LS's place have a 'policy' on a matter which is up to individual opinion. The Law Society shirty responses insisting that no such sub-committee was being set up or proposed to be set up.

Aug-Sep 1981

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