I taught my daughter justice may be blind... people aren't

As a former criminal barrister, I've spent most of my career studying power through the lens of the law, watching how it's argued, defended, and sometimes denied.

- SHARON AMESU

Power lives at the tables where verdicts are reached and policies are set, yet titles and robes don't guarantee integrity. True power belongs to those who bring truth into the room; who speak when it's risky, listen when others won't, and stay when the work gets hard.

I have most often been confronted with this reality in the courtroom. As one of only a handful of Black women practising in the North West, I saw how power could look impartial on paper but partial in practice.

And now, my daughter has followed me into the same profession. Two generations in the same sector facing the same architecture of power: one that still too often decides who belongs where before a word has even been said.