Countries whose police forces break up protests violently and do so spouting state propaganda are not liberal democracies.
Lawyers and others who stand aside and greet this with silence - or, worse, active support - are no friends of liberal democracy. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-54827535

The @barcouncil and @TheLawSociety went into apoplexy when the government passed a law allowing one element of an international treaty about trade to be disregarded in domestic law.

Yet when the government tears up cardinal democratic rights and breaches the fundamental rights to freedom of worship, to family life and to property they stand by.
Mute.

These are bodies and professions that - rightly - have proclaimed the importance of particular statutory protection for fundamental rights.

Yet when the government imposes the greatest interference in history (Hickinbottom LJ), with no attempt to justify itself save by the effects on the transmission of one virus , they stand by.
Mute.

The professions whose duty is to protect, fearlessly, the rights and liberties of their clients and the country at large.
Mute.