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Mastering the skills of the Bar By Deveral Capps and James Gray “There is no opposition between serious academic study of law and the needs of the practitioner. The contrary is true … The law and legal education are organically linked and no more than medical science can do without medical schools, neither can dispense with strong law schools in the universities".

C’est la Nouveau Guerre, C’est la Noveau Terreur' New War – or new terrors? By Dewi Williams, Lecturer in Law and Penny Booth, Principal Lecturer in Law, Staffordshire University Law School The word 'torture' is it self an extremely emotive term, often conjuring up imagaes of medieval barbarity or more recent Nazi atrocities

The Expert Witness: Guilty as charged? By Ian Brian Thompson, Secretary, The Expert Witness Institute The judges has made it clear in the past that the duty of the expert witness is to the court and not usurp the role of the judge(National Justice Campania Narviera SA v Prudential Assurance Co Ltd – The Ikarian Reefer, 1993 and Anglo Group Plc v Winther Brown & Co Ltd, 2000).

Can Section 13 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 override the principle that a child cannot be convicted as an accessory to an offence committed against them created by statute for their own protection as established in The Crown v Tyrrell [1894] 1 QB 710? By James Matthew Kiely BA (Hons), CPE, Barrister (Lincoln’s Inn). " The case of Tyrrell involved an appeal against a conviction of unlawfully aiding and abetting, counselling, and procuring an offence of unlawful carnal knowledge of the appellant case.

YBC warn of threat to justice from London criminal defence tendering plan By Fiona Jackson, Furnival Chambers, Elected member of the Bar Council; member of the YBC and CBA Barristers should also be under no illusions that such a scheme would seriously and irreversibly damage the current method of supply of legal services in London, and the LSC apparently intends to roll it out across the country in future years.

A Rough Guide to the Quality, Validity and Fairness of Police Investigations By Des Thomas MBA, Forensic Management Consultant and former Deputy Head of Hampshire CID. Where business people use double entry bookkeeping to match income against expenditure, detectives use investigative policy to justify decisions with information. Whilst business people uses sequentially numbered, time-dated invoices to keep track of money, investigators use sequentially numbered, time dated and signed pages in Policy Books to keep track of decisions.

Seeking Asylum Is Not A Crime By Kate Allen, Amnesty International UK Director The UK authorities have claimed that detention is pivotal to their strategy in removing asylum-seekers whose claims have been dismissed to prevent them from absconding. The truth is that no Government assessment has ever been published that looks at the risk of absconding, or the number of people that do.

Recycling offenders through prison By Juliet Lyon, director, Prison Reform Trust Between April and June this year 2,100 people were recalled on a breach of their licence. This will have made a material difference to the prison population twice bursting through the uppermost limit of the Home Office’s long-term projections

Outside Inns By David Randall David Randall, software architect of the InQuisita Law chambers management solution, outlines some of the more useful technologies for the remote worker and explores opportunities to free barristers from the tyranny of geography.

Leads to instructions: converting contacts into clients - Five Simple Steps to Success By Pippa Blakemore, BSc, PGCE, Partner in The PEP Partnership LLP It is now a fundamental requirement for barristers to be able to develop new business opportunities through ‘networking’. Contacts need to be developed into new clients and existing clients need to be encouraged to make greater use of the legal skills available to them. What may seem like shameless self-promotion to the more traditional member of the bar comes naturally to the newer breed of barristorporations.

Confidence and greater certainty for consumers of legal services By Kevin Martin, President, Law Society The Law Society is looking forward to the new arrangements for appointing Queens Counsel. Invitations to apply under the new system have been advertised widely and it is expected that the first appointments will be made in the first half of next year.