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Bar Council reacts to new ICC sanctions

The Trump administration has announced new sanctions against the president and a senior lawyer of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Chair of the Bar Council...

The Direct Access Market Has Changed. Has the Bar Kept Up?

  By Rory Nunn, Head of Direct Access, Barrister Connect Introduced in 2004, direct access represented one of the most significant changes to the way barristers...

Synthetic Counsel and the Hallucination Defence

 Judicial Responses to AI-Generated Fabrications in Legal Practice By Nicholas Blomfield The adoption of generative AI (GenAI), ranging from specialist legal platforms such as Harvey and...

Animal law shouldn’t be restricted by borders

  By V Victoria Shroff, KC, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics The growing loss of wildlife globally should unite countries in the same way the climate crisis...

Direct Access: A mature model for delivering legal services

Direct access is no longer an adjunct to traditional practice; it is a mature and increasingly central way of delivering specialist legal services. Although...

With the very best intentions… Family Law and the danger of ‘overcorrect’

In June 2026 we were all shocked and saddened to read about the heart-breaking events surrounding the tragic death of Henry Nowak in Southampton...

Houston, I have a problem…

To be fair, this is a problem that is commonly encountered by barristers. What is it? The inability to say ‘no’.  And I am the...

Reliability at Risk: Rethinking the Regulation of Expert Evidence

The Criminal Justice System (CJS) has long been criticised for its inability to prevent unreliable expert evidence from entering the courtroom. At first glance,...

Judicial diversity progress has stalled for Black lawyers – Bar Council

The Ministry of Justice has published the annual judicial diversity statistics. The 2026 report reveals a mixed picture. Although there was no disparity of outcomes...

New agreement signed between Bar Council’s Commissioner for Conduct and senior judiciary in next step to tackle bullying and harassment

The Bar Council’s Commissioner for Conduct has made a significant agreement with the Lady Chief Justice and the Senior President of Tribunals in a...

Jury Trials

I have been told, with the solemnity reserved for those who mistake gravity for wisdom, that the jury system is inefficient. The solution proposed?...

Orams Revisited

Effective Control, Criminalisation, and the Misuse of EU and International Law in Cyprus Property Disputes  Opinion Piece by Lennart Poulsen, Barrister at 9BR Chambers  Introduction Few cases...

Ethics culture remains strong at the Bar

The latest Bar Council survey of barristers shows that more than 8 out of 10 respondents report a very good understanding of the profession's...

When You Upload, What Have You Disclosed? AI, Confidentiality and the Embedded Document

By Dr Peter Fields, Barrister, The Barrister Group A barrister's guide to what actually happens when a confidential document meets an AI tool, and why...

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