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Barristers’ chambers secures private equity investment from LDC . Technology and flexibility, an advantage for the “21st century Bar”

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The Barrister Group (TBG) has secured private equity backing from LDC in what is believed to be the first such investment in the Bar of England & Wales.  The eight-figure minority investment in TBG, which is the umbrella group for well-known legal brands, including Clerksroom Chambers and Clerksroom Direct (direct access), will see LDC support the group's growth in the legal sector as it looks to attract more barristers and instructions with its tech-enabled alternative chambers model. Supported by advanced technology in its innovative, proprietary Chambers365 management...

Children in custody – Envisioning a way out.

In this article, pupil barrister Kitan Ososami discusses the problems with child imprisonment and how the new London Accommodation Pathfinder, a Youth Justice Board pilot designed to support 16–17-year-old boys at risk of custody pre- and post-trial, will attempt...

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...

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...

Slow steps of progress on widening access to legal aid – Bar Council

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The Bar Council has welcomed the expansion of legal aid eligibility but expressed concern at the slow pace of change in the face of high inflation, meaning many people are still unable to access justice. The Government has published its response to the legal aid means test review following a consultation last year. The announcement includes measures to increase access to legal aid for victims of domestic abuse, free legal representation to anyone under 18, and increasing the income thresholds for eligibility for civil and criminal cases in the magistrates’ courts. The Ministry of Justice press release also announced an end to the ‘innocence tax’ which forces people to pay for a legal...

Barristers’ chambers secures private equity investment from LDC . Technology and flexibility, an advantage for the “21st century Bar”

The Barrister Group (TBG) has secured private equity backing from LDC in what is believed to be the first such investment in the Bar...

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

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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...

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Solicitor acting in CFA owes same duties to client as solicitor in privately funded case

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Post-Brexit mutual free movement of people for UK & EU is becoming ‘critical’

It is becoming increasingly clear that the UK and the EU must strike a post-Brexit mutual free movement of people agreement if they are both to economically thrive over the next decade and...