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  •   After graduating with a law degree, what are the options?
  •   Challenging times for retailers, landlords and their lawyers
  •   Judges should take expert advice before accepting the government’s proposed remedy for the New Judicial Pension Scheme
  •  ‘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
  •  “Preparing for the worst but operating at our best” – Reform of the NIS Regulations
  •  BSB publishes its Strategy for the next three years and Business Plan for 2022-23
  •  England’s Lockdown Regulations: a Compressed History
  •  Exploring several reports showing child abuse has risen during the pandemic 
  •  Miscarriages of Justice – Assessing the Risk
  • ‘Real risk’ to human rights protections after Brexit, say Lords 
  • ‘Fair allocation of work: A Bar without barriers’
  • ‘Her Bar’ has launched – the online Hub for women barristers
  • ‘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
  • £1bn Recovered from Tax Fraud – Good News?
  • 1 Chancery Lane and 9 Gough Chambers agree merger
  • 10 years of the JAC: a retrospective
  • 200 members for Exchange Chambers
  • 3PB breaks through £30m turnover    
  • 4PB bolsters finance and children offering with appointment of barrister and author Alexandra Wilson
  • 6 steps that will help barristers refocus their business development to win more and better cases
  • 7 simple steps to growing your relationships with your most important law firms
  • 7BR highlights accessibility in legal profession with event
  • 7BR invests in state-of-the-art disabled access
  • 8 Common Police Errors in DUI Cases
  • A chambers’ guide to end of support for Windows Server 2008
  • A day in the life of a pupil: My first six
  • A Day in the Life of an Expert Witness
  • A Flood of Claims: How an Expert Witness helps determine liability
  • A new era for justice?
  • A Paperless Pandemic?
  • A paralegal life
  • 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
  • Academic appointments for Liverpool barrister
  • 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?
  • Addressing the challenges of financial management in chambers
  • ADR for personal injury claims
  • Advocate celebrates 25 years at Bar Pro Bono Awards
  • Aggregation – what is the meaning of ‘similar’ and ‘related’?
  • All bark no bite: will a new offence reduce companion animal abduction?
  • Alternative business structures – getting it right
  • Alternative training strategies for barristers that really do win more work
  • Amendment in Law of Wills to Combat Coronavirus
  • An overview of vulnerable witnesses in family law cases
  • Analysis of the whole life order imposed upon Wayne Couzens for the murder of Sarah Everard
  • Analysis of the whole life order imposed upon Wayne Couzens for the murder of Sarah Everard
  • And what if it does happen to you? What next?
  • And what if it does happen to you? What next?
  • Appeals on Part 36 Acceptance in Fixed Costs Cases
  • Are barrister’s high levels of stress placing their health at risk?
  • Are counter-terrorism laws curbing press and public freedoms?
  • Are tax enquiries leading to a fraud investigation?
  • 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 Barristers’ Chambers Secure and GDPR Compliant? Is your printer a major GDPR security risk?
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Backlog in the family courts – options for lawyers
  • Backlog in the family courts – options for lawyers
  • Bad day for victims of domestic abuse
  • Bar Council & Law Society react to PM’s comments
  • Bar Council announces shortlist for Employed Bar Awards 2022
  • Bar Council Chairman: the chilling effect of the Snoopers’ Charter
  • Bar Council hails new measures helping domestic abuse victims in family and civil courts
  • Bar Council reacts to publication of Independent Review of Criminal Legal Aid report
  • Bar Council responds to BSB retention report: “There is still work to do
  • Bar Council survey shows rising reports of harassment and discrimination in barristers’ profession
  • Bar Council welcomes action on SLAPPs to curb abuse of court proceedings
  • Bar Council, Bar Human Rights Committee and Law Society urge UK Government to offer asylum to female judges and other legal professionals in Afghanistan  
  • Bar Council: At the end of this crisis, justice must remain intact. No cutting corners, say barristers
  • Bar Essay – A Barrister’s Crusade
  • Bar Standards Board (BSB) entity regulation in practice
  • Barbarians at the gate : The attack on professionalism
  • Barrister relocates from London to join Exchange Chambers
  • Barristers and Data Protection, The Stuff of Nightmares?
  • Barristers and the barriers to long-term saving
  • Barristers warn of “serious shortcomings” in new Govt plans for state threats
  • Barristers’ flagship social mobility initiative heads north again
  • Blood Pattern Analysis – is it worth the paper it’s spattered on?
  • Blurring the lines of music copyright — is the landscape changing?
  • 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
  • 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 Disability Taskforce event: Being disabled at the Bar, and the regulator’s perspective on supporting disabled talent
  • BSB entities offer positive future for the Bar
  • BSB launches a consultation on the regulation of non-professional conduct and on proposed new Social Media Guidance and publishes interim Social Media Guidance
  • BSB publishes its Annual Report for 2020-21
  • BSB publishes new Equality and Research Strategies
  • BSB publishes new research on consumers’ expectations and experience of working with barristers
  • BSB publishes two new reports on transparency rules  
  • BSB seeks to abolish the Bar Course Aptitude Test  
  • BSB seeks views on an amendment to its minimum terms for barristers’ PII cover in relation to cyber incidents
  • BSB seeks views on an amendment to its minimum terms for barristers’ PII cover in relation to cyber incidents
  • 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
  • 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
  • Chambers as service companies
  • Chambers constitutional arrangements
  • Chambers Management
  • Chambers property structures
  • Chambers’ Information Technology: Think Security, Think Flexibility, Think Stability
  • Changing perception of family law
  • 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
  • Civil Litigation: The Disclosure Iceberg
  • Closing the circle: Forensic strategy in support of the ‘links’ between animal and human abuse
  • Cloud Video Platform – Friend or Foe?
  • 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?
  • Collective Competition Claim against Govia Thameslink for overcharging rail passengers
  • Combating acid attacks in London
  • Commenting on judicial conflict over remote hearings, Anna-Laura Lock, Senior Associate at Winckworth Sherwood, said:
  • Compelling parties to mediate
  • Compelling parties to mediate
  • Competition Appeal Tribunal gives green light for RHA £2 billion claim to proceed
  • Compliance in the paralegal sector is more critical than ever before
  • Compulsory vaccinations take NHS into uncharted territory
  • Conduct, Codes and Culpability
  • Conflicts of law & politics
  • Copyright infringement by posting a hyperlink
  • Coronavirus, Chambers and the Bar
  • Corporate crime and the regulatory approach
  • Could digital technology transform your chambers?
  • 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
  • Coventry v Lawrence
  • Covid Fraud: A costly and long-lasting side-effect of the pandemic
  • Covid-19 – its impact on prisons and prisoners
  • 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
  • Crackdown on the misuse of NDAs
  • Criminal barrister argues that justice is jeopardised unless the Gov supports legal aid
  • 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?
  • Criminal Legal Aid: Review calls for new measures to secure sustainability of criminal defence sector
  • Criminalizing Children – Justified ?
  • Cross-Examination: In search of a New Normal
  • Crown Court backlog increases again to over 60,000 cases
  • 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 overload placing huge pressure on barristers
  • Data Privacy Q&A: EU-US Privacy Shield
  • 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
  • Defamed by Anonymous Accounts
  • 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
  • Delays to justice during Covid-19 – Practical options available to the Defence
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Eleventh Circuit overturn lower court ruling requiring arbitration in Florida
  • 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
  • Entrepreneurs and HNWIs moving operations abroad in post-Covid economic slump
  • Entries open for Bar Council’s Employed Bar Awards 2022
  • 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
  • Exchange Chambers helping to shape new national strategy on ABI
  • Exchange Chambers increases pupil numbers in Leeds
  • Exchange Chambers welcomes Anesta Weekes QC as a new member
  • Expert determinations – perhaps the quickest, most sensible and most cost effective process for resolving disputes?
  • EXPERT INSIGHT: What impact can western sanctions have on Russia, their economy and war in Ukraine?
  • Expert witness: delivering evidence from the dark web when data breaches go to court
  • Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency
  • Failing to prevent economic crime – a new offence?
  • Failure and Fault: What the NatWest case tells us about corporate liability for money laundering
  • Failure to Prevent – Time to Prepare
  • False allegations of sexual abuse- The rise of the fine lie
  • Family court gridlock and online hearings
  • Family investment companies: Looking after your eggs!
  • Financially trapped between family law and religious law
  • Fixed fee Private Neutral Evaluation service for civil claims under £25,000.00 launched by No5 Barristers’ Chambers
  • Food contamination and the law: the policy of prevention
  • Footprint Evidence
  • Forensic Science in Crisis
  • Forensic Video Analysis: When to Seek an Expert
  • Four growth areas for the paralegal profession as we come out of lockdown
  • Fraud in Science: the Bigger Picture
  • Freezing Orders: A Return to Orthodoxy?
  • Funding must address root causes of the crown court backlog
  • Future Bar Training, disciplinary regulations, Alternative Business Structures and more…
  • GDPR – It is not all about IT
  • Getting offshore tax right
  • 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
  • Good Law Project and others v Secretary of State for health and Social Care 12.01.2022
  • Gordon Cole QC and Julian King from Exchange Chambers secure Bugzy Malone acquittal
  • Gove’s legal aid u-turn
  • Government has all but forced criminal barristers to take serious action, says leading QC
  • 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 names avoidance scheme promoters for first time
  • HMRC target Barristers – are you being “discovered”?
  • HMRC Taskforce activity
  • HMRC: a misuse of power?
  • HMRC: a misuse of power?
  • How document collaboration could enhance your Chambers
  • How can Chambers effectively prevent a data breach?
  • How can junior lawyers work around the current climate to mitigate the damage lockdowns could have on their careers?
  • 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 develop your speaking skills and enhance your legal career  
  • How to encourage mediation without compulsion 
  • How to Influence and Inspire Others More Effectively
  • 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 Trafficking: A young person’s solution” ?
  • I’m sorry but your expert is not allowed to address this court.
  • If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear?
  • 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?
  • 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 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 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 public empowered to seek justice when needed?
  • 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 not me. It’s not you
  • It’s Science Jim, but not as … oh no, it’s not science after all.
  • Joint enterprise: reason restored in landmark Supreme Court judgment
  • Junior barrister says more ‘Understanding’ is needed to retain females at the Bar
  • Juries are not equipped to understand technical expert evidence, according to 60% of experts surveyed by Bond Solon.
  • Justice for All
  • Justice on the rocks after government overpromises and underdelivers on criminal legal aid
  • Justice Week: CILEX chair calls for end to legal profession’s “deep-seated cultural biases”
  • Kathryn Stone OBE appointed as the new Chair of the Bar Standards Board
  • Kings Chambers partners with Embassy on new project tackling city centre homelessness
  • Last chance to join the UK’s biggest legal cycle challenge for Breast Cancer Now
  • 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 Firms: Cyber Risks, Responsibilities, and Rewards
  • Lawyers as Healers of Social Conflict
  • Legal Aid Cuts
  • Legal aid reforms need two-year impact review, says CILEX
  • Legal Aid review: welcome words, but time for action
  • Legal change in Cyprus – what you need to know
  • Legal Platforms: An opportunity for the Bar
  • Legal Professional Privilege and Paralegal Lawyers – does it apply? Should it apply?
  • 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
  • Looking Beyond The Picture: How To Trust Video Evidence
  • LPP threatened by landmark ruling
  • LSB competence statement ‘a solution in search of a problem’, says Bar Council
  • Magistrates’ prison sentencing powers doubled to tackle backlog
  • 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
  • Managing Cyber-Risks
  • Managing your chambers – a choice 
  • Manchester barrister joins Ministry of Justice trade mission  
  • Marketing Without Marketing:  Building Authority With Tomorrows’ Clients
  • McNair Chambers expands and launches in London
  • Media – Threat or opportunity?
  • Mediation in Intercultural Conflicts: How far can mediation help?
  • Michelle Heely QC appointed as youngest ever leader of Midland Circuit
  • 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 Barristers’ Chambers – what we need
  • Modern Barristers’ Chambers – what we need
  • Modern Setting
  • Modern Slavery Legislation: companies should not ignore the possibility of UK suppliers as a modern slavery risk
  • More than 10.35 million people are in prison around the world, new report published by the Institute for Criminal Policy Research shows.
  • Mother who needlessly adopted own child after registrar error has adoption order revoked
  • 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 code of conduct set to be introduced as private prosecutions escalate
  • New consultations from the Bar Standards Board
  • New data shows extent of crisis at criminal Bar  
  • New guideline on reduction in sentence for guilty plea – A further erosion of defendants’ rights?
  • New guidelines published for legal professionals practising within the Coroners’ Courts
  • New Law needed to combat moped criminals
  • New Member Adding “Academic Lustre” to Addington Chambers: Virtual barristers Chambers now totals seventeen in little over a year.
  • 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 research on the experiences of the falsely accused
  • New silks at Exchange Chambers
  • Next 100 Years celebrates 50th anniversary of first female judge sitting at the Old Bailey
  • 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
  • Nigel Rawding QC joins Twenty Essex as full-time arbitrator
  • Nightingale Court closures signal devastating court delays for victims of crime, says QC barrister
  • Nightmare on St Aldgates (have we learnt nothing from Jackson?)
  • No-fault divorce law puts focus on fairness of financial outcome
  • 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 in six’ young barristers want to quit amid heavy workloads and burnout fears, report suggests
  • One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? The Problem of the UK and Europol
  • Online justice: investment needed as drive for reform grows
  • Operating companies & Covid-19: Beware of tomorrow’s litigation!
  • Operation Violet Oak
  • 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
  • Paperless Trials – a perspective from the witness box
  • PARALEGAL ASSISTANCE WHEN A CLIENT GOES TO COURT
  • Paralegal offering their services direct to consumers – the two things they should never do
  • Peering through the cloud
  • Pitching Your Business for Investment
  • 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
  • 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
  • QC condemns long criminal prosecution delay
  • Quality Compromised is Justice Denied
  • 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
  • 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
  • Remote Hearings – is access to justice still being done and been seen to be done?
  • Reprieve: Richard Branson, Stephen Fry and Timothy Shriver plead with Singapore’s President for mercy as Nagaenthran Dharmalingam’s execution scheduled
  • Reputation Costs
  • Requirement to Correct tax due on offshore assets: Uncertainty guaranteed – need to correct?
  • Responding to Cyber-Hate
  • Retention of Women at Bar – one step forward and two steps back?
  • 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
  • Robots in the Court?
  • Romanian criminals avoid extradition under UK law
  • Samuel Townend QC elected as Bar Council Vice Chair for 2023
  • Saying ‘respect’ in court can in fact mean the opposite, study shows
  • Schrems II – a follow-up on the fallout…
  • Scotland prepares for compensation culture
  • Sexual Harassment in the Legal Profession – a review of the subject post #MeToo
  • 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?
  • 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
  • Special awards ceremony celebrates North West law students who are top of the class
  • Special Guardianship Orders – Reviewing the Journey so far
  • 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
  • Spiking in the UK 
  • 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
  • Stroke awareness campaign launched one year after barrister’s personal experience
  • Strong client relationships are integral to success as a barrister says Alan Denton, development specialist at The Results Centre.
  • Studying the Bar Practice Course during a pandemic
  • Subrogation in Fire Investigations: Advantages of Protocols and a Scientific Approach
  • Supreme Court rejects Strasbourg Court reasoning on the presumption of innocence
  • Supreme Court rules for the employer
  • 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
  • Taxpayer’s have unwillingly supported the Government’s inability to manage the 2010 financial crisis, Brexit, post Brexit deliberations and more recently COVID.
  • Televised Court Cases – an adjunct to justice long overdue
  • The “conduct of litigation”: defining the parameters
  • The Ballad of Reading (in) Gaol: Injecting Legal Analysis into the “Book Ban” Debate
  • The Bar Council highlights barristers championing social mobility
  • 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
  • The BSB’s new Bar Qualification Rules
  • The case for Regulation and Regulated Qualifications for Paralegals
  • The Challenge of Emerging Technologies and Data Protection
  • 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.
  • The court’s approach to key defences in the Defamation Act 2013
  • The Criminal Finances Act 2017 – What can we expect?
  • 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 Domestic Abuse Act 2021 – transformational legislation or a missed opportunity?
  • The Domestic Abuse Act 2021: A rescue craft for the evolving nature of domestic abuse? 
  • 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
  • The Future for DPAs
  • The future of litigation analytics
  • The future of our Criminal Justice System
  • The Future of the Paralegal Profession
  • The future of UK Family Law post-Brexit – What happens next?
  • The Government should think again on fixed fees in clinical negligence cases argues Nina Ali, partner, Hodge Jones & Allen
  • The Growth in Paralegals and The Opportunities this presents to the legal services sector  
  • 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!
  • The impact of The British Bill of Rights on our judiciary system
  • 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 International Law Framework – Establishing Violence Against Women and Girls as a Human Rights Abuse
  • 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 Aid Census – there’s strength in numbers
  • The Legal Aid crisis laid bare  
  • The legal implications of hacking
  • The Lessons from Grenfell Tower
  • The meaning of “professional misconduct” in barrister disciplinary proceedings
  • The modern era of Judge-led Reform
  • The modern family?
  • The new Master of the Roles has some big shocks for expert witnesses
  • The officious bystander triumphs over the man on the Clapham omnibus
  • The Online Safety Bill – does it go far enough?
  • The Power of Patterns in Forensics
  • The Practicality of “Hostile” Lease Terminations Ground F- Redevelopment
  • The proper scope of the Tort of Misuse of Private Information: Positive Acts, Data Security and Costs implications.
  • 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 Treasury Devil and the scandal that never was
  • 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
  • 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’
  • Tom Hayes: the unluckiest trader or a scapegoat?
  • Top lawyer says Lord Sumption is ‘just plain wrong’
  • 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 Queen’s Counsel Appointments for Exchange Chambers  
  • Two years on from LASPO, access to justice is suffering
  • UK voters value ‘honesty’ most in political leaders
  • UN Security Council considers devastating impact of international conflict on disabled women and girls
  • Unconscious Bias at Play behind Closed Doors
  • Unconscious Bias in the Courtroom 
  • Unconscious Bias in the Courtroom 
  • Understanding Courts
  • 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*
  • Video Evidence: Handle with Care
  • Virtual Hearings and Remote Advocacy for Civil Barristers
  • Vulnerable adult witnesses in immigration appeals
  • vulnerable people put at risk by digital lasting powers of attorney
  • 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 does the future hold for criminal lawyers?
  • 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 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
  • Witch trials and children’s evidence in Seventeenth-Century England
  • Women at the Bar in the Time of Covid
  • Women at the Bar in the Time of Covid
  • Women in the Law Dinner 2016
  • Worrying pattern on judicial diversity shows more action is needed, says Bar Council
  • 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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Kathryn Stone OBE appointed as the new Chair of the Bar Standards Board

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BSB publishes two new reports on transparency rules  

Bar Council hails new measures helping domestic abuse victims in family and civil courts

BSB launches a consultation on the regulation of non-professional conduct and on proposed new Social Media Guidance and publishes interim Social Media Guidance

Bar Council welcomes action on SLAPPs to curb abuse of court proceedings

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Getting offshore tax right

Are tax enquiries leading to a fraud investigation?

  Judges should take expert advice before accepting the government’s proposed remedy for the New Judicial Pension Scheme

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