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AI, the EU and US

I cannot pretend I know much about AI because whenever I attempt to Youtube my way into the subject, the examples of its potential...

Neurodiversity: Why we need different brains at the bar.

By Sophie Stevens, Pupil Barrister at 9BR Chambers Beating the Stigma: Barristers are often told to put their best point first in advocacy, and you...

Family Law: Early Resolution, Out of Court Settlement and Delay in Family Proceedings

There is a significant backlog of cases in the family courts, both in terms of public and private law family proceedings. While there has...

Medicine and the law – where criminal and civil law overlap

By Rozhin Shabbak, LLB Law Graduate Case Law Bawa-Garba v General Medical Council EWCA Civ 1879 As the law stands, doctors are not exempt from gross...

The impact of the Financial Crisis on Divorce

For several months now, families have been feeling the pressure of the financial crisis. As inflation rises, the cost of living has rocketed, and...

Why isn’t mediation used more often in regulatory and public law cases?

By Josef Cannon, barrister and mediator, Cornerstone Barristers Mediation has a remarkable success rate for resolving disputes: the latest research (from the Centre for Effective...

Private prosecutions: The quiet battle against illegal streaming

The world of private prosecutions has taken a bit of a beating. Once hailed as an effective alternative to state prosecutions, they are now...

Use of the Beth Din as a Forum for Determining Civil Disputes

Owing to what many Orthodox Jews regard as a biblical prohibition against litigating their disputes in secular courts, there has developed over many centuries...

Animal law: Past, present, and possible future

Law firms and barristers’ chambers offering specialist animal law services are few and far between. They exist and are on the rise but are...

Barristers can change the world – but as lawyers not “activists”

A few weeks ago, I was invited to sign the Declaration of Conscience, in which more than 150 barristers pledged not to prosecute climate...

BHD and the Bar: Zero Compromise to Zero Tolerance

At the outset of 2023, I set out five goals for my year as Chair of the Young Bar of England & Wales: 1)...

100 Years of Female Barristers at the Bar

This year marks a century since the first woman was called to the Bar by Gray’s Inn. On the 13th of June 1923, Edith Hesling,...

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...

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...

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