Friday, March 24, 2023

Bar Council comment on family mediation plans

Commenting on the Ministry of Justice (MoJ)...

UK Fraud Levels

In what will not be viewed as...

Bar Council statement on judicial independence in Sri Lanka

  Elections to Sri Lanka's Local Authorities are...

BARRISTER MAGAZINE

Read the Barrister Magazine, a fantastic legal resource for online News, Articles & Information for Barristers in the UK. Keep abreast of Law Articles, Find a Barrister, Subscribe to our Articles on the Latest Legal News, Legal Services, Law Events, Expert Witnesses & Barrister Services. Its all here, ready to educate, inspire & Inform

Bar Council comment on family mediation plans

Breaking News Barrister -
Commenting on the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) plans to fund mandatory mediation for separating couples, Sam Townend KC, Vice Chair of the Bar, said: "The Bar Council welcomes the consultation announcement and the opportunity it provides to focus on how to address the outstanding case backlogs in the family justice system. The additional money to support mediation is welcome and we will consider the issue of making mediation mandatory. Provision for mediation without allowing for prior legal advice is unlikely to be generally...

Making mental health a global priority in the legal profession

By Hamizah Manshor, Pupil Barrister, Yusof Halim & Partners The tenth day of October marks the day we commemorate what is regarded as the World Mental Health Day to raise mental health awareness.  In 2022, the theme was to ‘Make...

Keeping court bundles safe from the dark web

Recently, dozens of court bundles containing sensitive personal data were leaked on the dark web after cyber criminals hacked into one of the country’s leading law firms. By Mike Wills, director of strategy and policy at cyber and data security...

Cognitive Bias: Forensic Science  

Dr David Schudel forensic chemist at Keith Borer Consultants. According to the Oxford English dictionary, “bias” has several meanings, including: “to influence, affect (often unduly and unfairly)”. No one likes to think of themselves behaving...

Evidence from computers – the unreliable legal presumption that, without more, it can be relied upon

By Stephen Mason, barrister, general editor of Electronic Evidence: Disclosure, Discovery & Admissibility, (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2007)  On 16th July I got a fish supper from the Harbour Café, in Girvan, Ayrshire. I paid by @BankofScotland...

Bar Council comment on family mediation plans

Breaking News Barrister -
Commenting on the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) plans to fund mandatory mediation for separating couples, Sam Townend KC, Vice Chair of the Bar, said: "The Bar Council welcomes the consultation announcement and the opportunity it provides to focus on how to address the outstanding case backlogs in the family justice system. The additional money to support mediation is welcome and we will consider the issue of making mediation mandatory. Provision for mediation without allowing for prior legal advice is unlikely to be generally successful and may, in cases where there is a real discrepancy in resources, be detrimental. We look forward to considering the consultation and responding."

Bar Council comment on family mediation plans

Commenting on the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) plans to fund mandatory mediation for separating couples, Sam Townend KC, Vice Chair of the Bar, said: "The Bar Council...

POPULAR CATEGORIES

AnalysisBreaking NewsComment & OpinionEditors PickExpert Witness ServicesFeatured ArticleForensicsIn BriefLegal

With great respect, that is a bad legal argument: ‘respect’, courtesy or insult? 

Legal Barrister -
By David Wright1, Helen Murray-Edwards2, Jeremy Robson2, Natalie Braber1 1School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University 2Leicester De Montfort Law School “Eighteen of Mr Tangle’s learned friends, each armed with a little summary of eighteen hundred sheets, bob up like eighteen...

 Investment urgently needed to ensure future of criminal defence profession

I have spent the last 15 years fighting on behalf of the Law Society’s members for the pay their vital work deserves, which is necessary to make the criminal defence profession sustainable and ensure access to justice for victims, witnesses and defendants. Criminal defence solicitors have gone a staggering quarter of a century without a significant funding hike. It is hard to think of any other profession where the fees payable are stuck in a mid-90s time warp. Unsurprisingly given the...

Three new reports from the BSB show the impact of Bar training reforms

The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has  published: an interim report from AlphaPlus evaluating the BSB’s Future Bar Training (FBT) reforms; the BSB’s 2023 Bar Training Report, covering the period from 2011/12 to 2022/23 and the Central Examinations...

Bar Council comment on family mediation plans

Commenting on the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) plans to fund mandatory mediation for separating couples, Sam Townend KC, Vice Chair of...
Comment & Opinion

Enhancing Video Evidence: a Scientific Path Towards the Truth

By Martino Jerian – CEO and Founder at Amped...

Reporting in Family Courts

By Stuart Barlow, Solicitor, Family Law Specialist  To make...

Have we really reformed animal welfare post-Brexit?

By Ayesha Smart, Barrister, 33 Bedford Row  “High standards of...

The Legal Limbo of Cohabitants: Time for Reform?

By Sophia Gonella, Pupil Barrister at Queen Elizabeth Building Introduction The...
In Brief

Bar Council comment on family mediation plans

Commenting on the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) plans to fund mandatory mediation for separating couples, Sam Townend KC, Vice Chair of the Bar, said: "The Bar Council...

UK Fraud Levels

In what will not be viewed as the most welcome of statistics, the total value of UK fraud appears to have risen to its...

Bar Council statement on judicial independence in Sri Lanka

  Elections to Sri Lanka's Local Authorities are supposed to have taken place by 19 March 2023. The Sri Lankan Parliament has allocated funds through...

Rushed migration Bill runs counter to the rule of law, says the Bar Council

The Illegal Migration Bill is unlikely to be compliant with the UK’s obligations under the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) and runs counter...

Three new reports from the BSB show the impact of Bar training reforms

The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has  published: an interim report from AlphaPlus evaluating the BSB’s Future Bar Training (FBT) reforms; the BSB’s 2023 Bar Training Report, covering...
Editors Pick
Must Read
Translate »