How to participate in your own legal defense | Lam Ho

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🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Lawyers are advocates for their clients -- and, in court, they're usually the ones who do the talking. Should that always be the case? In an effort to shift this power dynamic, TED Fellow and legal aid activist Lam Ho shares how lawyers can create space for people to tell their own stories in the courtroom, making them active participants in the legal process and producing surprisingly positive results.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
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0:13.9	Lawyers are advocates for their clients, and usually they do the talking.
0:17.7	We're used to seeing people on trial sit silently as their advocates make their cases for
0:22.3	them.
0:23.3	But should that always be the case?
0:25.2	When it's stopped from Ted 2022, Legal Aid activist Lam Ho makes his case for how the
0:30.5	legal system has to change so that people with the highest stakes in a courtroom can have
0:35.7	more agency over what happens.
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