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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...

Can sentencing for police officer offenders be improved?

By Ellie Watson Pupil Barrister at Crown Prosecution Service, Manchester Introduction Recent case law has uncovered difficulties faced by the courts when sentencing police officers. Fulford...

Assistance animals, access, and ableism

Recent media outlets reported multiple incidents of disabled people being forced to leave public premises due to having an assistance animal with them. By Christina...

Being a Barrister: New Beginnings

By Chevan Ilangaratne - Employment and PI/Clinical Negligence Barrister at St Philips Chambers For me, and I suspect many others, the nerves and excitement...

Taking the right decisions: how the Bar Standards Board builds checks and balances into its enforcement work?

By Mark Neale, Director General, Bar Standards Board Part of the stock-in-trade of constitutional lawyers is the concept of checks and balances – those safeguards...

Modern Day Slavery: Where are we now?

Modern slavery and the section 45 defence have been in the spotlight within the last year or two, with the Court of Appeal having...

The state of Protest

By Alexander McColl, Pupil Barrister at Garden Court North Chambers Protest is as fundamental to and as inextricable from the foundational principles of liberal democracy...

Three things I wish I had known before joining the Commercial Bar

After a year of pupillage and some months into tenancy, there is still a lot that I do not know about the commercial and...

The use of experts in private children law family disputes involving allegations of parental alienation

By Frankie Shama, barrister, 4PB, London Parental alienation has been defined by the Court of Appeal in Re S (Parental Alienation: Cult) EWCA Civ...

The Public Order Bill: a lesson in legislative irony

The right to peaceful protest is one that we, members of an elective and representative democracy, often take for granted. Its existence constitutes one...

Complaint handling – the Legal Ombudsman’s perspective

What is the Legal Ombudsman? For those who don’t know who we are or what we do, we are the Ombudsman, the independent and impartial...

Public Sector Fraud – A Way Forward?

The UK government can now argue that it is backing the statements it has made about tackling fraud with an injection of cash and...

What to expect from a compelled interview

By Sam Healey, Partner in Business Crime & Regulation at JMW Solicitors If you are required to attend a ‘compelled’ interview by an investigating authority, proceed...

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...

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