A-Z

•  ‘Raising the bar for others’- my journey to the bar’.
•  Access and progression: My journey to the Bar
•  Investment urgently needed to ensure future of criminal defence profession
•  Judges, Lawyers and the Litigant in Person
• “A Whole Life Order on Each and Every Offence”: The Unprecedented Implication of Lucy Letby’s Whole Life Orders
• “Disability is not a barrier to success” – supporting neurodiversity in law at the University of Hertfordshire  
• “To boldly go” – Free speech today in the US supreme court
• “You’ll never make it as a Barrister…”
• 100 Years of Female Barristers at the Bar
• 3- Silk solutions from St Johns Building for arbitration
• 46% of Brits Don’t Understand Legal Aid or how to get Support
• A Double-Edged Sword: The Transactional Nature of Plea Bargains
• A positive professional identity: Maximising your legal career & well-being
• Addressing the challenges of financial management in chambers
• AI the EU and US – Part 2-The Deep Fake
• AI, the EU and US
• All bark no bite: will a new offence reduce companion animal abduction?
• An introduction to the illegal migration bill
• Animal law: Past, present, and possible future
• As with most things, the cheapest option is not always the best
• Assistance animals, access, and ableism
• Bar Council announces new contextual recruitment tool to boost social mobility at the Bar
• Bar Council calls on Peers to reject deeply flawed Illegal Migration Bill
• Bar Council comment on Cilex lawyers becoming judges
• Bar Council commits to address inappropriate behaviour at the Bar
• Bar Council congratulates Alex Chalk as new Lord Chancellor
• Bar Council responds to latest judicial diversity data
• Bar training students: additional re-sits pilot at BPP
• Barbara Mills KC elected as Bar Council Vice Chair for 2024
• Barrister Link Shortlisted for ‘Excellence in Innovation’ at East Midlands Chamber Business Awards
• Barristers can change the world – but as lawyers not “activists”
• Barristers support Black History Month with historic play
• Barristers’ chambers secures private equity investment from LDC .  Technology and flexibility, an advantage for the “21st century Bar” 
• Being a Barrister: New Beginnings
• BHD and the Bar: Zero Compromise to Zero Tolerance
• Breaking the bias: What a real barrister looks like
• BSB announces minimum pupillage award from 1 January 2024
• BSB appoints new Vice-Chair of Independent Decision-making Body  
• BSB publishes its Annual Report for 2022-23
• BSB publishes new guidance on barristers’ conduct in non-professional life and on social media
• BSB Publishes the Independent Decision-making Body Annual Report 2022/23
• BSB survey of sanctions compliance at the Commercial Bar finds good levels of compliance but room for improvement in some areas
• Building a system to protect students from sexual harm
• Can sentencing for police officer offenders be improved?
• Can’t sell – won’t sell. Why ‘selling’ shouldn’t be a dirty word
• Cause of Death: Procedure, Inquests and Implications
• Chair of the Bar calls for change to timing of Call in future-gazing speech
• Chambers encouraged to analyse earnings data to understand disparities and ensure equal access to work
• Children in custody – Envisioning a way out.
• Civil Partnerships: Law Reform
• Cognitive Bias: Forensic Science  
• Complaint handling – the Legal Ombudsman’s perspective
• Computer Evidence: presume nothing, trust no software or data, engage an expert.  Costly?  Just look at the cost if you don’t.
• Could digital technology transform your chambers?
• Court queues leave bereaved families in ‘limbo’, lawyer warns
• Cross-Examination: In search of a New Normal
• Culture shift needed to deliver court reform programme – Bar Council
• Cyber Law: Language Matters
• Defending private prosecutions
• Delays to surrogacy law reform creating risk for babies
• Director General, Mark Neale, declares the need for independent regulation of the Bar
• Diversity at the Bar – Social Mobility
• Do Human Rights survive in time of national crisis or war? A Cautionary Tale
• Drama in the courtroom: Defending the rights of children diagnosed with autis
• Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022
• Eight points to consider when appointing a forensic accountant as an expert witness  
• Enhancing Video Evidence: a Scientific Path Towards the Truth
• Ensuring you have a successful para legal business
• ESG Leases: Brave new world or false dawn?
• Ethics and access: striking the right balance
• EU legislation set to further tighten regulations on use of communications data
• Evidence from computers – the unreliable legal presumption that, without more, it can be relied upon
• Exchange Chambers expands mentoring scheme across the North
• Exchange Chambers sees significant growth to the Family Team in Manchester
• FA’s inquiry into race allegations: kicking discrimination out of the field
• Failure to prevent fraud – a new criminal offence for big business
• Family Law: Early Resolution, Out of Court Settlement and Delay in Family Proceedings
• Fixed recoverable costs: Bar Council insists on pay for work done
• Fraud in Science: the Bigger Picture
• Fundamental Dishonesty – Recent decisions and practical steps for practitioners
• Funding hike sees CILEX and solicitor apprenticeships receive equal funding
• Getting your chambers fit for the future
• Half of middle-aged Brits could be putting their loved ones at risk
• Have we really reformed animal welfare post-Brexit?
• How do we create change in criminal justice?
• How the Legal Profession has Become a Complex Legal Ecosystem
• How to sharpen your presentation skills
• Improving Access to Justice? What the Changes to Cost Capping in Planning and Environmental Claims Really Mean?
• Insolvency specialist Graham Sellers joins Exchange Chambers
• Is independent lawyering under siege?
• Is the public empowered to seek justice when needed?
• Is your expert an expert?
• Junior barrister says more ‘Understanding’ is needed to retain females at the Bar
• Keeping court bundles safe from the dark web
• Kids, Court and Caffeine…How to survive having a baby at the Bar
• Kings Chambers welcomes new member
• Lasting power of attorney risks – is there a resolution?
• Leading barristers chambers announces team restructure
• Legal community gravely concerned: joint statement from the Bar Council and Law Society
• Legal Platforms: An opportunity for the Bar
• Looking Beyond The Picture: How To Trust Video Evidence
• Louis Browne KC acts for Wrexham Borough Council under Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014
• Making mental health a global priority in the legal profession
• Medicine and the law – where criminal and civil law overlap
• Mentoring: how a handful of hours a year can help transform fair access to the Bar
• Ministry of Justice to open up more senior judicial roles to CILEX Lawyers
• Modern Day Slavery: Where are we now?
• Modern Setting  
• MPs urge the Government to end delay on protections for cohabiting partners
• Neurodiversity: Why we need different brains at the bar.
• New IBA report provides first-of-its-kind global perspective on cybersecurity risk governance
• New legislation providing additional rights for carers, expecting parents and new parents
• Nightmare on St Aldgates (have we learnt nothing from Jackson?
• Non-Competes: The UK v US approach
• Post-Brexit mutual free movement of people for UK & EU is becoming ‘critical’
• Preventing Digital Exclusion from Online Justice
• Private prosecutions: The quiet battle against illegal streaming
• Public Sector Fraud – A Way Forward?
• Quincecare[1] duty does not require banks to second-guess customers’ clear instructions: Fiona Philipp v Barclays Bank UK PLC [2023] UKSC 25
• Raab resignation: This has to be a fresh start for the justice system
• Raising the Bar for Working Parents
• Re-thinking litigation workflows for the 21st century
• Recent High Court guidance on Fundamental Dishonesty
• Reconsidering how we talk about legal professional privilege
• Religious observances and festivals – what are my employers’ obligations?
• Remote justice: Some thoughts on the future of hearings in courts and tribunals in an increasingly virtual world
• Reporting in Family Courts
• Rushed migration Bill runs counter to the rule of law, says the Bar Council
• s.48(a) MCA 2005: should a 25% likelihood of incapacity suffice to make interim orders?
• Senior judicial roles open up to CILEX Lawyers as new legislation comes into force  
• Serle Court to host Chambers Event at Lord’s celebrating Jewish cricket community
• Slow and steady wins the race: content marketing for barristers
• Slow steps of progress on widening access to legal aid – Bar Council
• Social Media Raising the Bar
• Solicitor acting in CFA owes same duties to client as solicitor in privately funded case
• Solicitors unconvinced about government’s ABI strategy
• Statement from Working Families on the Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Bill Receiving Royal Assent
• Taking the right decisions: how the Bar Standards Board builds checks and balances into its enforcement work?
• The Bar Standards Board appoints Fieldfisher to review its enforcement system
• The Bar Standards Board issues a consultation on proposed amendments to widen its powers to protect the public
• The Bar Standards Board issues a consultation on the regulation of barristers in chambers
• The Bar Standards Board publishes its 2022/23 Annual Report into Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing  
• The Bar Standards Board publishes its 2023-2024 Business Plan
• The Bar Standards Board reappoints Capsticks to provide external legal support for its regulatory decision-making
• The Challenge of Emerging Technologies and Data Protection
• The collapse of FTX – the epitome of corporate failure
• The court’s approach to key defences in the Defamation Act 2013
• The Fragility of Civil Legal Aid
• The Human Rights Act 1998 and the IPT’s attempt to strike a satisfactory balance between national security and human rights through the Liberty v GCHQ case).
• The impact of the Financial Crisis on Divorce
• The Importance of Pursuing Mediation before Starting Legal Proceedings
• The International Law Framework – Establishing Violence Against Women and Girls as a Human Rights Abuse
• The Legal Limbo of Cohabitants: Time for Reform?
• The Power of Patterns in Forensics
• The promise of an inheritance: is it enforceable?
• The Public Order Bill: a lesson in legislative irony
• The reversal of the presumption of innocence in compensation claims for those wrongly convicted:  the case of MALKINSON casts a spotlight  
• The Rise of the Digital Mercenaries
• The role of AI in the legal profession
• The role of AI in the legal profession
• The role of machine translation in the legal sector
• The Russian invasion of Ukraine: a year on.
• The Secret of Good Advocacy: Show Don’t Tell
• The Spire Foundation beginnings
• The state of Protest
• The use of experts in private children law family disputes involving allegations of parental alienation
• Three things I wish I had known before joining the Commercial Bar
• To no one will we sell, to no one will we deny, or delay right or justice’
• Top financial crime lawyer says Farage comments on money laundering laws raise important point
• Two Kings Chambers barristers named as King’s Counsel
• UK Fraud Levels
• Unlawful killing following Maughan – new guidance issued by the Chief Coroner
• Use of the Beth Din as a Forum for Determining Civil Disputes
• We are All Trudi Warner! Promoting the Rights of Jurors in the Twenty First Century
• What Black History Month Means to Me
• What it takes to progress from bottom to top…an insight into careers at the Criminal Bar
• What to expect from a compelled interview
• When is Without Prejudice really Without Prejudice?
• Where did Part 35 go?
• Why isn’t mediation used more often in regulatory and public law cases?
• Why the legal sector needs to invest in accessibility
• Will a new failure to prevent fraud offence address the UK’s most commonly committed criminal offence?
• Wills: Why it’s important to get your affairs in order
• Witch trials and children’s evidence in Seventeenth-Century England
• With great respect, that is a bad legal argument: ‘respect’, courtesy or insult? 
• Youth Remand and the impact of the PCSC Act 2022