Marina Claire Wheeler

Marina Claire Wheeler (Born August 18 1964) is British lawyer and writer.

• Also known as Marina Wheeler, her experience includes being a Barrister, Mediator and writer and is well renknowned for both her work in the UK parliament as well as the judicial court.
• She undertakes a multitude of cases; from complex family laws, employment and public work laws. Although, she specializes in detention, mental health and national security issues.

Quotes

In her article, 'When some are more equal than others' she writes about her own legal work as:

- “My own experience, shared by many colleagues, is that a high proportion of discrimination cases we deal with are ill-founded. One colleague puts the figure at more than 60 per cent... Many unregulated advisors make a living bringing discrimination claims, and they do not always seem to have the best interests of the Applicant in mind.”

As the daughter of an immigrant and as a woman, she is very vocal about the experiences of both racial and gender discrimination.

- "It is time we offered the same protections to people reporting sexual harassment, bullying and discrimination in the workplace as we do to other whistleblowers."

- "It was this complete blank canvas, this whole side of my heritage, and I wanted to discover that." - from her memoir, The Last Homestead.

- "I certainly never pretended to be a Conservative."

She rather contradictingly joined the Labour party as their sexual harrasment adviser, to which many British Citizens see as a 'dig' to her ex-husband, the former leader of the Conservative Party.

- “This Is Still About Power. It’s Very Much A Male Thing Of, ‘This Is Our Space"