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  •   Challenging times for retailers, landlords and their lawyers
  •  ‘A forum for debate about extradition?’
  •  ‘To no one will we sell, to no one will we deny, or delay right or justice’ Magna Carta
  •  Miscarriages of Justice – Assessing the Risk
  • ‘Real risk’ to human rights protections after Brexit, say Lords 
  • ‘Fair allocation of work: A Bar without barriers’
  • ‘Marketing: Planning with a Sprinkle of Magic!”
  • ‘The Prosecutorial Power Pendulum: The Queen (KBR) v The Director of the Serious Fraud Office’
  • “Why won’t you listen?”
  • “How can we deliver successful change in Chambers?”
  • “I’ve given up” – The true cost of lying smokers in healthcare litigation  
  • “immoral or outrageous or disgraceful” – Should legal regulators embrace “call-out” culture ?
  • “Serving the rule of law of today”
  • “Sometimes I think that the only piece of legislation which is totally reliable is the law of unintended consequences”
  • “To be a law officer is to be in hell”  
  • “To boldly go” – Free speech today in the US supreme court
  • 10 years of the JAC: a retrospective
  • 2018-19 saw the highest number of Bar students since the BPTC began, says new report
  • 3PB launches new Remote Access Family Court Room (RAFCOR) for family finance disputes
  • 5 Essex Court welcomes Emma Price
  • 500 expert witnesses to meet to discuss phoney experts
  • 7 simple steps to growing your relationships with your most important law firms
  • 8 Common Police Errors in DUI Cases
  • A big thank you to War hero Captain Tom Moore
  • A chambers’ guide to end of support for Windows Server 2008
  • A day in the life of a pupil: My first six
  • A Flood of Claims: How an Expert Witness helps determine liability
  • A new era for justice?
  • A Paperless Pandemic?
  • A paralegal life
  • A practical guide to religion and belief discrimination claims in the work place
  • A tale of a tub. Expert witnesses confer at the cutting hedge
  • A Victory for Clarity R v Golds and the meaning of ‘substantial’ in the context of diminished responsibility.
  • Abubacarr Marie Tambadou: A fearless champion of humanity
  • Access to Justice 
  • Achieving accessible justice through effective participation in courts and tribunals
  • Achieving gender equality in the workplace
  • Acquiring Chambers Premises
  • Adapt or die: can an already “agile” arbitration service survive the pandemic?
  • Addressed as ‘My Lord’, banned from wearing trousers, forced to lower their voices and make the tea – new book tells the untold stories of women in law
  • Addressing the challenges of financial management in chambers
  • ADR for personal injury claims
  • Aggregation – what is the meaning of ‘similar’ and ‘related’?
  • Akhter V Khan case, comments  from Charles Hale QC of 4PB who represented Mrs Akhter.
  • Alliance Manchester Business School expands legal and tech offering  
  • Alternative business structures – getting it right
  • Alternative training strategies for barristers that really do win more work
  • Amanda Pinto QC, Chair of the Bar’s reaction to the latest update on key worker status for barristers during the Covid-19 outbreak:
  • Amendment in Law of Wills to Combat Coronavirus
  • An overview of vulnerable witnesses in family law cases
  • And what if it does happen to you? What next?
  • And what if it does happen to you? What next?
  • Andrew Mitchell QC appointed as Vice Chair of the Bar Standards Board  
  • Appeals on Part 36 Acceptance in Fixed Costs Cases
  • Appointment of 6 Commissioners of the Criminal Cases Review Commission
  • Are barrister’s high levels of stress placing their health at risk?
  • Are counter-terrorism laws curbing press and public freedoms?
  • Are the assets of State-owned enterprises immune from the enforcement of arbitral awards?
  • Are we ready to go Digital?
  • Are you listening carefully?
  • Are your website terms and conditions up to scratch?
  • Artificial Intelligence in Chambers ?
  • Artificial Intelligence: Where Disruption Becomes a Force for Good
  • Artificial Intelligence: Where Disruption Becomes a Force for Good
  • As with most things, the cheapest option is not always the best
  • Assessing physical disability for the Equality Act 2010.
  • Atkin Chambers welcomes new tenant Shourav Lahiri
  • Attitude, preparation and conduct: giving yourself the best shot at judicial or QC appointment  
  • Aziz Rahman of business crime solicitors Rahman Ravelli examines the worrying money laundering implications for the UK when Brexit becomes a reality.
  • Bad day for victims of domestic abuse
  • Bar Council Chairman: the chilling effect of the Snoopers’ Charter
  • Bar Council issues warning over latest ‘No.10 source’ comment and threats to lawyers
  • Bar Council reaction to £85 million boosts to CPS
  • Bar Council reaction to Home Secretary’s asylum speech
  • Bar Council reaction to Supreme Court decision on prorogation of Parliament
  • Bar Council response to Government investment in courts
  • Bar Council response to pre-charge bail reform plans
  • Bar Council statement: Chancellor’s financial package must match up
  • Bar Council survey finds immediate impact of COVID-19 on barristers’ profession
  • Bar Council warning over today’s criminal justice statistics
  • Bar Council: At the end of this crisis, justice must remain intact. No cutting corners, say barristers
  • Bar Council: Prime Minister’s comments are “shocking and troubling”
  • Bar Essay – A Barrister’s Crusade
  • Bar Standards Board (BSB) entity regulation in practice
  • Barbarians at the gate : The attack on professionalism
  • Baroness Scotland QC reflects on early career and being told she’d be better off working at Sainsbury’s
  • Barrister with international commercial experience joins No5 Barristers’ Chambers
  • Barristers and Data Protection, The Stuff of Nightmares?
  • Barristers and the barriers to long-term saving
  • Barristers are key workers, says Bar Council
  • Barristers Predict an Uncertain Future for the Bar
  • Barristers’ flagship social mobility initiative heads north again
  • Bill Hanbury case provides important guidance on Landlord and Tenant Act
  • Birmingham’s Senior Coroner tells lawyers to put the family at the heart of an inquest during No5 seminar
  • Blood Pattern Analysis – is it worth the paper it’s spattered on?
  • Blurring the lines of music copyright — is the landscape changing?
  • Bond Solon 2019 Conference Highlights
  • Boom in divorce proceedings forecasted as pandemic continues
  • Boom in litigation funding has transformed the dispute resolution landscape
  • Border Crossing : E-Disclosure in complex litigation
  • BPP University Law School reveals details of its new Barrister Training Course
  • Brain injury rehabilitation driven to crisis-point by perfect Covid-19 storm
  • Brexit – constitutional considerations :  The process of withdrawal
  • Brexit and Business Crime: What Next?
  • Brexit in the boardroom
  • British public want restrictions on the use of facial recognition technology
  • BSB appoints new Chair and Vice-Chair of Independent Decision-making Body
  • BSB appoints new Independent Reviewer
  • BSB authorises The University of the West of England to deliver new Bar training provision bringing the total number of providers to eight
  • BSB conditionally authorises Manchester Metropolitan University to deliver new Bar training provision
  • BSB ensures that August centralised assessments for the BPTC and Bar Transfer Test can be sat remotely
  • BSB offers first conditional authorisation to a vocational training provider
  • BSB publishes candidate guide for August centralised assessments
  • BSB publishes its Annual Report for 2018-19
  • BSB publishes two-year equality and diversity strategy
  • BSB seeks savings in response to the coronavirus crisis
  • BSB sets priorities for the next 12 months
  • BSB to introduce a single recruitment timetable and written agreements for all pupillages
  • BSB updates policy on the publication of disciplinary findings against barristers
  • Budget constraints in the legal system reduces the quality of evidence that appears before the courts
  • Budget constraints in the legal system reduces the quality of evidence that appears before the courts By Matthew Jackson, Director, Senior Forensic Consultant and Expert Witness at Athena Forensics.
  • Building rapport within mediation
  • Building the foundations for keeping legal data safe
  • Call for Evidence to help improve BSB Handbook
  • Can we trust Cryptocurrencies?
  • Can you solve hate crime with a hashtag?
  • Can you trust what you show in Court?
  • Casual sex, STIs, and the criminal law
  • Celebrating the Magna Carta
  • Celebrating the Magna Carta
  • Chair of the Bar – Flexible court hours puts HMCTS on collision course with equality agenda
  • Chair of the Bar Council’s “international powerhouse” speech to the Bar Conference
  • Chair of the Bar’s update: Attending court in person, extend hours, jury trials, ‘Space workers’ vs. barristers
  • Chambers as service companies
  • Chambers constitutional arrangements
  • Chambers Management
  • Chambers property structures
  • Chambers’ Information Technology: Think Security, Think Flexibility, Think Stability
  • Charity honours female lawyers who fight for women’s rights
  • Children law specialist with 35 years’ experience joins St John’s Buildings
  • Christopher Ashton v FCA – further developments for individuals wishing to challenge prejudicial implications in FCA notices
  • Chronic Pain – Is it all the in head?
  • CILEx from a barrister’s perspective
  • City of London Corporation and Bar Council celebrate 100 years of women in law and 125 years of the Bar Council
  • Civil Litigation: The Disclosure Iceberg
  • Clarity on employment status tests is ‘badly needed’ say tax judges
  • Closing the circle: Forensic strategy in support of the ‘links’ between animal and human abuse
  • Co-operation on security and law enforcement post-Brexit
  • Co-operation on security and law enforcement post-Brexit
  • Coaching for Lawyers: Features and Benefits
  • Coaching for Lawyers: Features and Benefits
  • Cognitive Bias in Fingerprint Evidence: Does the alleged ‘matching’ ridge detail even exist?
  • Combating acid attacks in London
  • Commenting on judicial conflict over remote hearings, Anna-Laura Lock, Senior Associate at Winckworth Sherwood, said:
  • Common law is common sense for business
  • Compelling parties to mediate
  • Compelling parties to mediate
  • Compensation rule abolished allowing victims to reapply
  • Conduct, Codes and Culpability
  • Conflicts of law & politics
  • Copyright infringement by posting a hyperlink
  • Coronavirus, Chambers and the Bar
  • Could a virtual Justice system become the norm?
  • Could digital technology transform your chambers?
  • Court of Appeal gives clarity on Damages Based Agreements after eight year wait
  • Court of appeal provides useful guidance on the award of summary judgement on limitation grounds in professional negligence claims
  • Court room lighting –  fair trials and the assignation of the rule of law for profit
  • Court users won’t be forced to use computers
  • Courts during coronavirus pandemic: Robert Buckland statement
  • Coventry v Lawrence
  • COVID-19 and Health & Safety: what are the workplace implications and knowing your ‘RPE’s from your ‘FFFP3’s
  • COVID-19 and the state of exception
  • COVID-19 Business advice and support for Barristers
  • COVID-19 In Prisons – A Major Public Health Risk
  • COVID19: What’s in store for the Bar?
  • Crackdown on the misuse of NDAs
  • Criminal Justice : Years of neglect have heaped colossal pressure on the whole system including those who work hard in it, and basic legal advice is being denied to people when they need it most
  • Criminal Justice Alliance: procedural fairness in courts
  • Criminal justice post-Brexit: could the UK be left out in the cold?
  • Criminalizing Children – Justified ?
  • Cryptoassets and Insolvency
  • Current Shortfalls in the Interpretation of DNA Results
  • CVAs and the shape of the high street
  • Cyber Essentials: Are chambers ready for the Governments Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials + Schemes?
  • Cyber resilience in the UK legal sector: Discussion Paper March 2016
  • Cyber risk:  How to hide from the bad guys
  • Dana Denis-Smith, founder of The First 100 Years project charting the journey of women in the legal profession tells us about one of the project’s latest film launches and what to look out for from the project in 2019.
  • Data and Information Law specialist joins St. John’s Buildings
  • Data overload placing huge pressure on barristers
  • Data Privacy Q&A: EU-US Privacy Shield
  • David Knifton QC and Chris Barnes secure substantial settlements in ground-breaking claims against the MOD
  • David Knifton QC in ground-breaking judgement on liability of MIB
  • David Lammy address to parliament
  • Dechert and the £16.3m bill: ‘Systematic and gross overcharging’
  • Declaring War on Fraudulent Holiday Sickness Claims
  • Defending a divorce is expensive, complicated and unlikely to succeed, making it an inaccessible option for most people, and an ineffective and unfair legal process
  • Del Canto Chambers welcomes former judge Josep Galvez
  • Developments in E-Disclosure
  • Digital Evidence:  What’s new?
  • Digital Footprints in the Snow, Understanding Timestamps and Metadata for Legal Cases
  • Digital Marketing Strategy or Marketing Strategy in a Digital Age?
  • Direct Access … are you delivering? 
  • Direct Access to Businesses Marketing via Directory Sites or Build your own Brand and Clientele  
  • Dispelling the myths and incorrect assumptions about paralegals
  • Distinguishing between a McKenzie Friend and a Paralegal
  • Diversity at the Bar
  • Diversity must be put at the heart of the legal sector’s future
  • Divorcing couples to face costly complex battles during Brexit transition period
  • DIY Divorces and the True Cost
  • DLA Piper Virtual hearings study indicates that legal firms need to embrace digitisation to remain on the cutting edge of innovation
  • Do we need a global Declaration of Internet Rights?
  • Does Litigation Funding need more regulation?
  • Does the European Court of Human Rights Defend freedom of expressions enough?
  • Drama at the Rolls – leading QCs battle over hacking allegations
  • Drama in the courtroom: Defending the rights of children diagnosed with autism
  • Duo of QCs for Kings Chambers
  • Duties of Counsel in Criminal Appeals
  • Effective marketing means staying well within your comfort zone
  • Eight hundred years: this extraordinary longevity is living proof of the enduring power of the law
  • Eight hundred years: this extraordinary longevity is living proof of the enduring power of the law
  • Elections to go digital this year
  • Eleventh Circuit overturn lower court ruling requiring arbitration in Florida
  • Elliot Kay and Stephanie Hall join Kings Chambers
  • Employee ordered to pay more than £500,000 in legal costs in breach of restrictive covenants and data privacy case
  • Employee social media posts: in what circumstances may an employer be liable under the Equality Act 2010? 
  • Employing a marketing consultant could be a great way of breathing life into your chambers
  • England and Wales: Global legal centre
  • Entrepreneurs and HNWIs moving operations abroad in post-Covid economic slump
  • European Parliament approves new EU rules to ensure that the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty in criminal proceedings is respected
  • Examining Expert Evidence
  • Examining Language Barriers In The Criminal Justice System
  • Exchange Chambers appoints new Chief Executive
  • Exchange Chambers Barristers Prosecute Newcastle Murder Featuring in BBC’s Our Cops in the North
  • Exchange Chambers barristers secure £3.8m settlement in JSM by video-link
  • Exchange Chambers is ‘the premier set in the North’ says Legal 500
  • Exchange Chambers launches new mentoring programme to drive equality and diversity
  • Exchange Chambers launches Private Prosecutions team
  • Exchange Chambers’ Leeds expansion gathers pace with Simon Ross joining as new member
  • Existing leasehold legislation responsible for level of landlord and tenant disputes  
  • Expert determinations – perhaps the quickest, most sensible and most cost effective process for resolving disputes?
  • Expert witness: delivering evidence from the dark web when data breaches go to court
  • Extraordinary Financial Solutions for Extraordinary Times
  • Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency
  • Failing to prevent economic crime – a new offence?
  • Failure to Prevent – Time to Prepare
  • False allegations of sexual abuse- The rise of the fine lie
  • Family barrister puts forced marriages in the legal spotlight
  • Family court gridlock and online hearings
  • Financially trapped between family law and religious law
  • First Ever Bribery Acquittal following a Deferred Prosecution Agreement Secured by UK Lawyers
  • Fixed fee Private Neutral Evaluation service for civil claims under £25,000.00 launched by No5 Barristers’ Chambers
  • Focus on inquest law updates and suicide conclusions at No5’s annual London seminar
  • Food contamination and the law: the policy of prevention
  • Footprint Evidence
  • Forensic Science in Crisis
  • Forensic Video Analysis: When to Seek an Expert
  • Former Chair of the Bar appointed Head of St Philips Chambers
  • Former UK Supreme Court Justice Lord Carnwath joins Landmark Chambers
  • Fraud in Science: the Bigger Picture
  • Freezing Orders: A Return to Orthodoxy?
  • Future Bar Training, disciplinary regulations, Alternative Business Structures and more…
  • Future of the Bar Council: Vice-Chair and Treasurer elected
  • GDPR – It is not all about IT
  • Germany plans English-speaking courts after Brexit
  • Getting to know Google Analytics
  • Getting work as a paralegal
  • Gibraltar: the yardstick of the future of Spanish and British relations
  • Giving your paralegals recognition is good for business
  • Gordon Cole QC secures acquittal for England cricketer Ben Stokes
  • Gove’s legal aid u-turn
  • Government paying junior barristers less than national minimum wage
  • GRL Legal’s placement of Jason Housden at Henderson Chambers as new Chambers Director
  • Guilty or not guilty – can the computer decide?
  • Half of rape jurors make guilty verdict before deliberation
  • Hammers, nails and the small matter of opinion.
  • Harry Dunn: UK-US diplomatic relations strained  
  • Has Singapore missed a trick in not permitting third-party funding for all cases heard by the Singapore International Commercial Court?
  • Helena Kennedy QC film launch
  • Hidden in plain sight; the problems with current DNA evidence
  • HMRC target Barristers – are you being “discovered”?
  • HMRC Taskforce activity
  • HMRC: a misuse of power?
  • HMRC: a misuse of power?
  • Honorary Queen’s Counsel nominations: deadline Tuesday 13 August 2019
  • How document collaboration could enhance your Chambers
  • How can Chambers effectively prevent a data breach?
  • How can forensic science research be prioritised and funded? Lords to hear evidence
  • How legal firms are risking confidential information
  • How the points-based immigration system will impact UK businesses
  • How the points-based immigration system will impact UK businesses
  • How to become a great dictator
  • How to encourage mediation without compulsion 
  • How to look after your team’s well-being whilst remote working during COVID-19
  • How to manage Public Access clients
  • How to set up a business as a paralegal practitioner
  • How to sharpen your presentation skills
  • Human Rights Committee: is your personal data safe? Privacy and data collection and storage 
  • Human Trafficking: A young person’s solution” ?
  • I’m sorry but your expert is not allowed to address this court.
  • I’m sorry but your expert is not allowed to address this court.
  • If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear?
  • Ignorance of the law is no defence  
  • iMarketing – how could the tech you already have in your pocket revolutionise your marketing?
  • iMarketing – how could the tech you already have in your pocket revolutionise your marketing?
  • Immigration Bill: One step forward, two steps back?
  • Immigration concerns post-Brexit highlighted at No5 seminar
  • Implications of developments in entity regulation
  • Improving Access to Justice? What the Changes to Cost Capping in Planning and Environmental Claims Really Mean?
  • Improving transparency standards for clients of the Bar
  • In conversation with Harbour
  • In praise of common four letter words
  • In the court of Dionysius-How I faced a professional conduct committee hearing and acquired buckets of humility
  • Inaugural address by Andrew Langdon QC Chairman of the Bar 2017. Delivered in Middle Temple Hall, London on 14 December 2016  
  • Inaugural speech to the Bar Council by Richard Atkins QC Chair – Elect of the Bar
  • Increased Sentences for money laundering – The one figure that stands out
  • Insight and controversy: Expert witnesses kick off autumn conferring at the cutting edge
  • Introducing the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on media freedom: Amal Clooney’s speech
  • Invitation to participate in the 2 weeks of action against charter flight deportations January 2017
  • Is bribery & corruption being overlooked by UK authorities?
  • Is it time to re-imagine your Chambers?
  • Is local PR for barristers worth the time it takes?
  • Is local PR for barristers worth the time it takes?
  • Is the legal sector fully benefiting from cloud?
  • Is the prejudice of an investigating manager relevant to determining the propriety of a dismissal, even if the decision makers are not aware of and do not share that prejudice?
  • Is the UK’s Financial Services sector set for an upswing in complaints, claims and legal action?
  • Is there a need to protect the innocent who are falsely accused of domestic violence?
  • Is there an “existential threat” to barristers”
  • IT Department vs. Barrister
  • It may be 2020 but the number of forced marriages in the UK remains a hidden statistic despite being illegal.
  • It’s the robot’s fault! Artificial intelligence in the aerospace sector
  • It’s Science Jim, but not as … oh no, it’s not science after all.
  • Jeremy Johnson QC of 5 Essex Court appointed as a Justice of the High Court
  • Joint enterprise: reason restored in landmark Supreme Court judgment
  • Judge, QC and top Yorkshire solicitors line up to share insights at Women in the Law UK Leeds summer networking event
  • Juries are not equipped to understand technical expert evidence, according to 60% of experts surveyed by Bond Solon.
  • Justice for All
  • JUSTICE launches report “A new model for challenging school exclusions
  • Kings Chambers set to break £35m billings barrier in 2018
  • Kings Chambers strengthens team with new barrister
  • Kings Chambers team represents Chambers in Dubai
  • Kings Chambers welcomes barrister Oliver McEntee
  • Latest edition of BSB Handbook introduces new Bar transparency rules
  • Latest First 100 Years film premieres – Dame Elizabeth Gloster QC and Khatun Sapnara
  • Latest message from Chair of the Bar Council on Covid-19
  • Latest message from Chair of the Bar, Amanda Pinto QC, on the COVID-19 situation
  • Law around non-consensual taking, making and sharing of sexual images to be reviewed
  • Law Firms: Cyber Risks, Responsibilities, and Rewards
  • Leading audit, tax and consulting firm RSM comments on the VAT and EU trading implications of ‘No Deal’ Brexit papers
  • Leading barristers in immigration law to share expertise at annual seminars
  • Leading experts to discuss veteran challenges at Bolt Burdon Kemp’s inaugural Military Conference
  • Leading Media, Communications and Information Law Chambers One Brick Court Adds Two New Tenants
  • Legal Aid Cuts
  • Legal Aid review: welcome words, but time for action
  • Legal counsel on the Coronation Street cobbles for life support storyline
  • Legal Professional Privilege and Paralegal Lawyers – does it apply? Should it apply?
  • Legal Services Board updates rules to enhance regulatory independence
  • Leslie Thomas QC appointed Gresham Professor of Law
  • Life- (and law)-changing stories at the heart of this year’s Bar Pro Bono Awards
  • Litigation Funding –  notable legal developments of 2016
  • Litigation Funding – Case law opens the door to new opportunities
  • Litigation funding bring level playing field in accessing justice
  • Lord Chancellor Swearing-in Speech: Robert Buckland QC
  • Louis Browne QC delivers Opening Statement on behalf of University of Salford at Manchester Arena Inquiry
  • LPP threatened by landmark ruling
  • LSB confirms new Ombudsman Chair and calls for improved performance and accountability
  • LSB extends call for evidence on ongoing competence  
  • LSB launches consultation on its 2019/20 business plan
  • LSB publishes ‘flexible’ Business Plan and will support legal sector recovery following Covid-19
  • LSB publishes internal governance rules response and decision document
  • Magna Carta 1215 to 2015
  • Magna Carta and human rights
  • Male Oxbridge-educated barristers from London chambers still more likely to become QCs despite major reforms
  • Man rendered tetraplegic after horrific accident set to realise his ambition to become a barrister
  • Managing Cyber-Risks
  • Managing your chambers – a choice 
  • Marketing Without Marketing:  Building Authority With Tomorrows’ Clients
  • Matthew Foster becomes new CILEx President
  • Media – Threat or opportunity?
  • Media and legal experts to shine a light on how law practices and the media can work together
  • Mediation in Intercultural Conflicts: How far can mediation help?
  • Middle Temple Celebrates a Century of Women in Law
  • Military Justice – the Severity of Sentencing
  • Ministerial Code – Leave to Appeal
  • Mistakes will happen: English Court of Appeal clarifies the test for rectification for common mistake
  • Modern Setting
  • Modern Slavery Legislation: companies should not ignore the possibility of UK suppliers as a modern slavery risk
  • More significant hires for Serjeants’ Inn
  • More than 10.35 million people are in prison around the world, new report published by the Institute for Criminal Policy Research shows.
  • Mothers, fathers and grandparents forcibly removed from the UK, despite spending their entire adult life in Britain
  • Must lawyers be good sales people – or is there a better way of getting to clients?
  • National Justice Museum commissions study on the place of justice and law in modern society
  • Neurodiverse people at the Bar
  • New BSB Transparency Rules
  • New claims management coding to drive improvements in maternal and neonatal care
  • New code of conduct set to be introduced as private prosecutions escalate
  • New consultations from the Bar Standards Board
  • New Director General Mark Neale joins Bar Standards Board
  • New figures reveal barristers’ commitment to pro bono
  • New guideline on reduction in sentence for guilty plea – A further erosion of defendants’ rights?
  • New joint venture to support next generation of barristers
  • New JUSTICE Working Party Report – Prosecuting Sexual Offences
  • New Law needed to combat moped criminals
  • New regulatory operations at the BSB, a new website, and a reminder about the new Bar transparency rules
  • New report calls for major reform to how the performance of the criminal justice system is measured.
  • New report reveals England & Wales spends more on coffee than on law and order
  • New research highlights lack of cooperation between claimant and defendant solicitors in brain injury litigation
  • New research on the experiences of the falsely accused
  • New research: Delaying justice will leave us with no barristers to pick up the pieces
  • Nigel Booth, Criminal Barrister at St John’s Buildings, comments on the rise in people representing themselves at Court, and the key things people should consider when facing the prospect
  • Nigel Poole QC, a leading clinical negligence barrister at Kings Chambers, explores the implications of the Department of Health’s proposal to cap legal fees payable by the NHS.
  • Nigel Poole QC, head of Kings Chambers has written in response to the pandemic and how Chambers has adapted
  • Nightmare on St Aldgates (have we learnt nothing from Jackson?)
  • No-fault divorce law puts focus on fairness of financial outcome
  • No5 barrister publishes book to promote global importance of mental health
  • No5 barristers appear in new BBC crime documentary working on complex prison drugs case
  • No5 introduces staff training to support barristers during the menopause
  • Non-disclosure of evidence in Rape Trials: UK Perspectives
  • NSPCC calls for more support for child witnesses
  • Nunn so blind as those who cannot see.
  • On Deprivation of Liberty
  • On Deprivation of Liberty
  • On Interpretation and Judging
  • One Charter that rules them all?
  • One Pump Court’s Rachel Francis honoured with Special Award at 2019 LALYs
  • Online justice: investment needed as drive for reform grows
  • Operating companies & Covid-19: Beware of tomorrow’s litigation!
  • Opportunities Knock: Identifying and recording lost opportunities, opens up new methods of detecting weaknesses in Chamber’s armoury.
  • Our justice system needs to modernise
  • Our Legal sector : an economic phenomenon which Brexit must not undermine
  • Panamania – new Bill to fight offshore tax evasion
  • PanLaw launch
  • Paperless Trials – a perspective from the witness box
  • Paralegal offering their services direct to consumers – the two things they should never do
  • Parliament needs a bigger role in scrutinising international agreements – Lords EU Committee
  • Peering through the cloud
  • Policing by machine
  • Politics and the law: Where do we draw the line?
  • Practice at the Civil Bar: Some intriguing possibilities
  • Practice at the Civil Bar: Some intriguing possibilities
  • Pragmatic and profitable, but do DPAs deliver justice?
  • Preparing for crisis communications
  • Preventing Digital Exclusion from Online Justice
  • Priority courts to make sure justice is served
  • Privacy in the Age of the Customer
  • Probability and the law
  • Problem-solving family courts prove their worth in the UK: New findings
  • Prosecuting Sexual Offences
  • Protection beyond the law – cybersecurity in the legal industry
  • Publicity Order for corporate offenders: Read all about it
  • QC calls for radical change in personal injury litigation
  • Quality Compromised is Justice Denied
  • Queen’s Counsel Appointments Ceremony 2020: Lord Chancellor speech
  • Queen’s Counsel in England & Wales: 2015 to 2016
  • Randy Holland: former US judge forges bridge with leading London chambers
  • Rape as a deliberate strategy of war and prosecuting ISIS
  • Rationing Forensic Science
  • Recent Developments in Private Prosecutions and the Application of the New Code
  • Reconsidering how we talk about legal professional privilege
  • Record turnover for Exchange Chambers
  • Reflections on the ICLR top 15 cases: A talk to commemerate the ICLR’S 150th Anniversary
  • Reforming regulation to bring innovators to the market
  • Reforms in divorce law: more amicable outcomes, but still too long a wait
  • Reforms in divorce law: more amicable outcomes, but still too long a wait
  • Regulation of experts.  Is the proposed cure worse than the disease?
  • Releasing young adults could be best route out of lockdown, experts suggest
  • Reputation Costs
  • Requirement to Correct tax due on offshore assets: Uncertainty guaranteed – need to correct?
  • Responding to Cyber-Hate
  • Response to The Mayson Report from the National Association of Licensed Paralegals
  • Revenge Pawn: Sex-tapes and marital disputes  
  • Review of court arrangements due to COVID-19, message from the Lord Chief Justice
  • Revocation of British Citizenship: Shamima Begum
  • Richard Alomo to attend 13th Annual Business Law Conference in Nigeria
  • Robert Buckland QC speech: Modernising Criminal Justice Conference 2019
  • Robots in the Court?
  • Romanian criminals avoid extradition under UK law
  • Saudi lawyer Waleed Abu al-Khair to receive 2019 ABA International Human Rights Award
  • Scotland prepares for compensation culture
  • Secret Barrister cross-examined for Talking Law podcast
  • Senior judge shines light on Court of Protection at No5 seminar
  • Serious harm must be shown to result in a successful defamation claim
  • Serious injury silk hails “the most exciting development in brain injury rehabilitation for twenty years”
  • Sexual offences – has one excess bred another?
  • Sexual Offences Sentencing Guidelines
  • Sexual Offences Sentencing Guidelines
  • Shaken expert?
  • Shaping the Bar’s response to Brexit
  • Should there be a new sexual offence of public place voyeurism?
  • Silk joins Exchange Chambers in Leeds
  • Simply the Best?
  • Sir Andrew Burns to stand down as BSB chair at the end of December
  • Sir James Munby: a call for reform lost in needless controversy
  • Six Months that Changed My Life: A Profile of Christabel McCooey
  • Six reasons to fear the creeping privatisation of policing
  • So you need a Digital Forensic Expert?
  • Social Media Raising the Bar
  • Solicitor and the Bar regulation grow ever closer
  • Solving the problems with Direct Access
  • Some practical points for litigating under TOLATA
  • Special awards ceremony celebrates North West law students who are top of the class
  • Speech by Andrew Walker QC, Chair elect, to the inaugural meeting of The General Council of the Bar of England and Wales for 2018
  • Speech to HM Judges dinner
  • Sports experts come together for flagship conference
  • St John’s Buildings adds police officer turned barrister to its criminal law team
  • St John’s Buildings secures duo of appointments to the IAFL
  • St John’s Buildings welcomes round of new barristers
  • St John’s Buildings wins top honour at Manchester Legal Awards 2020
  • St John’s Buildings, Fletchers Solicitors and Bott and Co join University’s legal and technology initiative The initiative is the first research collaboration of its kind in the UK
  • St John’s Buildings’ Kate Burnell appointed to Queen’s Counsel
  • St John’s Buildings’ Samantha Hillas takes Silk
  • Stamp Duty Changes – Second Homes and Investment Properties  Winners and Losers
  • Statement by Chair and Vice-Chair of the Bar
  • Stephen Paddock, Mass Shooter. a Lesson For All of Us
  • Striving for an Inclusive Legal Services Sector
  • Striving for an Inclusive Legal Services Sector
  • Strong client relationships are integral to success as a barrister says Alan Denton, development specialist at The Results Centre.
  • Student Pro Bono Awards shortlist announced
  • Subrogation in Fire Investigations: Advantages of Protocols and a Scientific Approach
  • Suffering through injustice
  • Supporting free legal advice Grants round announcement
  • Supreme Court refuses MIB permission to appeal in landmark case establishing liability for accidents on private land
  • Supreme Court rejects Strasbourg Court reasoning on the presumption of innocence
  • Supreme Court rules for the employer
  • Supreme Court’s first artwork to feature women in law commissioned to celebrate centenary
  • Sustainable Development, Environmental & Democractic Policies in Relation  to Upcoming Elections in DR Congo
  • Swearing-in of The Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, The Right Honourable David Roy Lidington MP
  • Televised Court Cases – an adjunct to justice long overdue
  • The “conduct of litigation”: defining the parameters
  • The Access to Justice Foundation launches ‘Go the Extra Mile for Justice’ fundraising campaign to replace 2020 legal walks
  • The Ballad of Reading (in) Gaol: Injecting Legal Analysis into the “Book Ban” Debate
  • The Bar continues to become gradually more diverse, but more progress is still needed, says BSB report
  • The Bar Council, which represents all barristers in England and Wales, comments on the independence of the judiciary in the United Kingdom
  • The Bar in a time of crisis: An online response we can be proud of
  • The Bar Standards Board: A risk-based regulator and the future of the Bar
  • The barrister experience:  The principles of existence in court that affect performance
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  • The case for Regulation and Regulated Qualifications for Paralegals
  • The Changing of the Bar
  • The changing role of the clerk in the modern age
  • The Church and Magna Carta: a Hereford perspective. Hereford Cathedral has powerful reminders of the Church’s role in the story of the first Magna Carta and its implementation
  • The continuing global rise of litigation funding
  • The Court Martial and the HRA
  • The Court of Appeal clarifies the “public interest” test on an application for permission to bring committal proceedings in relation to a false statement of truth, and re-confirms that “disastrous” consequences can follow for those who mislead the Court.
  • The Court of Appeal clarifies the “public interest” test on an application for permission to bring committal proceedings in relation to a false statement of truth, and re-confirms that “disastrous” consequences can follow for those who mislead the Court.
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  • The criminal law disclosure process – why is the system failing?
  • The cult of victimhood and the limits of the law (Part 2) 
  • The dangers of missing court deadlines
  • The dawn of cryptocurrency in divorce
  • The Discount Rate: Where are we now?  How did we get here? And where might we be going?  
  • The Dominic Ongwen case at the ICC and the double status of child soldiers as victims-perpetrators
  • The EU Withdrawal Bill: UK citizens set for ‘second class status’- Bar Council
  • The evidence is overwhelming: our criminal justice system is no longer fit for purpose. 
  • The Expert:  Is your expert,expert in what you need?
  • The FCA: In hot water, with a leaky ship?
  • The fifth money laundering directive and the responsibilities it places on business
  • The first ever Dean of an Inn of Court speaks to The Barrister about the need for lifelong learning at the Bar
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  • The Government should think again on fixed fees in clinical negligence cases argues Nina Ali, partner, Hodge Jones & Allen
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  • The human cost of cutting legal aid
  • The IBA Report UsToo – Bullying and Sexual Harassment in the Legal Profession: The Time for Change is Now!
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  • The importance of cyber response strategies in the legal sector
  • The Importance of Pursuing Mediation before Starting Legal Proceedings
  • The importance of transparency in the disclosure process
  • The Importance of Unreported Judgments
  • The Inner Temple adopts pioneering technology platform to support students considering a law career
  • The irony of the Snoopers’ Charter
  • The LASPO Post-Implementation Review and Action Plan
  • The Law is now an App
  • The Law Society’s battle for LPP: why the fight goes on
  • The legal implications of hacking
  • The Lessons from Grenfell Tower
  • The main trade provisions of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement
  • The meaning of “professional misconduct” in barrister disciplinary proceedings
  • The modern era of Judge-led Reform
  • The modern family?
  • The new Prime Minister has talked of the possible value of free ports to a post-Brexit UK. But Syedur Rahman, of business crime solicitors Rahman Ravelli, warns that concerns about money laundering and other financial crime must be considered
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  • The Practicality of “Hostile” Lease Terminations Ground F- Redevelopment
  • The role of Litigation PR outside and inside the courtroom
  • The SFO’s Use of Informants: A Bright but Unclear Future 
  • The standard of proof in disciplinary proceedings- The balance of probabilities v reasonable doubt
  • The Supreme Court’s Joint Enterprise Ruling: both a shock and a sigh of relief
  • The tech revolution has its say in the personal injury world
  • The Thirtieth annual Bar Conference and Young Bar Conference 2015  
  • The Times Bond Solon Expert Witness Survey 2019
  • The Trouble with Sexting
  • The UK Grenfell Tower blaze & Corporate Manslaughter
  • The value of” a screening report”
  • The Voices the Global Law Summit Shouldn’t Have Missed
  • The winds of change
  • The world of litigation funding and its impact on the Bar
  • There is a light at the end of the tunnel on my neighbour’s commute.  My neighbour is a barrister.
  • This year sees the anniversary of an Act of great constitutional significance – an Act which enhanced judicial independence.
  • Threats to the Rule of Law – Independence of the Judiciary
  • Three new silk appointments for Radcliffe Chambers – Shantanu Majumdar, Kate Selway and Christopher Boardman to be appointed as Queen’s Counsel
  • Time for the English Courts to widen the Definition of Client for Privilege purposes?
  • To no one will we sell, to no one will we deny, or delay right or justice’
  • Today’s criminal court backlog statistics show justice system in poor health
  • Tom Hayes: the unluckiest trader or a scapegoat?
  • Top Barrister Launches Book to Demystify Clinical Negligence
  • Top lawyer says Lord Sumption is ‘just plain wrong’
  • Top silks line up to feature in Women in the Law UK podcast
  • Toxicological considerations in casework
  • Transparency in the family courts – President issues a “route map” for those dealing with applications to vary or lift reporting restrictions
  • Transparency in the family courts – President issues a “route map” for those dealing with applications to vary or lift reporting restrictions
  • Trends in Legal Technology: The Art of the Possible
  • Two Different Approaches to the Plight of Legacy CMBS Noteholders result in the same outcome
  • Two years on from LASPO, access to justice is suffering
  • UCL professor appointed first Dean of Inner Temple in its 700-year history
  • Unconscious Bias at Play behind Closed Doors
  • Understanding Courts
  • Unexplained wealth order: Will the trickle ever become a flood?
  • University of Oxford receives £1.2m for AI and legal services project
  • Unleashing the True Potential of AI – Building the Exponential Law Firm
  • Unlike some, I am not upset by the increases for the CPS employees
  • Unlocking the Potential of AI for English Law
  • Unnatural Selection – Forensic Science on the Endangered List*
  • Upbeat AGM sees Exchange Chambers explore London expansion  
  • Video Evidence: Handle with Care
  • Vulnerable adult witnesses in immigration appeals
  • VW: Criminals in the UK?
  • We need to better equip the next generation for the legal sector of the future
  • Wellbeing at the Bar? Is a Legal Aid Lawyer’s Work All Stress and Distress? 
  • What can businesses learn from the pandemic, and how can they stay afloat while keeping on the right side of the law?
  • What happens after Covid-19? How the Paralegal Sector can help legal professionals get back on their feet.
  • What is Income Protection and how does it work once you’ve applied?
  • What next for Public Legal Education?
  • What the modern Solicitor General does as a government officer in 2015. An interview with Robert Buckland QC and Member of Parliament
  • What US PE / VC funds, fund managers, & fund investors need to know about the UK’s “People with Significant Control Register”
  • What’s in a Name? Privacy Shield Replaces Safe Harbor
  • When can a non-defendant company have its assets confiscated?
  • When mother has died, and father wants the child to live with him, why did the High Court order the child to remain with mother’s friends, and that father pay towards their legal costs?
  • When their rights are violated, citizens lose faith in the administration of justice and the rule of law. It is the role of lawyers in society to uphold and defend the rule of law for citizens
  • Where has my data gone?
  • Why a stronger independent Bar, fit for purpose in the 21st Century will emerge from the Covid-19 crisis
  • Why adviser firms should be concerned
  • Why Are Our Images Stolen Online? Expert Lawyer Explains
  • Why do lawyers need PR?
  • Why is the Bar Standards Board regulated entities take up so low?
  • Why pro bono makes good business sense
  • Women in the Law Dinner 2016
  • Women in the Law UK founder wins two major awards in the space of a week
  • Women in the Law UK holds first London event with array of high profile speakers
  • Women in the Law UK launches crowdfunding campaign for wellbeing initiative
  • You’ve been asked to manage a Chambers?…. Good Luck!”  
  • Young Bar blog: Supporting the Young Bar during COVID-19
  • Youth sexting: updated position on self-taken indecent images and social media
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