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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...

What it takes to progress from bottom to top…an insight into careers at the Criminal Bar

Sophie Murray, St Ives Chambers talking to Rebecca Wade and Millie Webb Having joined St Ives Chambers a year ago I have been impressed with...

Wills: Why it’s important to get your affairs in order

By Alison Parry, Partner in Will Disputes at JMW Solicitors Contemplating our own mortality is rarely an enjoyable topic, but it is a vital...

The Fragility of Civil Legal Aid

“At the heart of any review of the civil legal aid scheme should be the simple principle that legal aid should always pay enough...

When is Without Prejudice really Without Prejudice?

By Suliat Jimoh, Paralegal at Winckworth Sherwood The recent cases of Scheldebouw v Evanson and Meaker v Cyxtera Tech UK Ltd have served as reminders of how...

Ethics and access: striking the right balance

What is an ethical lawyer? Should an ethical lawyer steer clear of certain clients on public interest grounds? And should the regulator police the...

Failure to prevent fraud – a new criminal offence for big business

At a time where fraud was found to have been the most common criminal offence committed in England as of September 2002, the UK...

How do we create change in criminal justice?

Is change, indeed, even possible? Or are we reduced to eking out small victories and minor concessions, while the penal juggernaut careers on? As we...

The Importance of Pursuing Mediation before Starting Legal Proceedings

The Principle As long ago as 2001, Lord Woolf LJ gave this guidance in R (Cowl) v Plymouth City Council EWCA Civ 1935 at : “The importance of...

Where did Part 35 go?

It has always been a bug bear of mine that in The Apprentice the business plans are not examined until the end of the...

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