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Asylum Seekers and the Criminal Justice System

It would be silly to suggest that this is not an incredibly thorny issue. By Colette Russell, Pupil Barrister, The Chambers of Mark Love In...

The Strategic Use of Early Neutral Evaluation in ADR Proceedings

Dr. Andre Alexander, SJD, LLB Barrister, Solicitor (Dutch-Brussels Bar, High Court of Fiji) Authorised for Legal Practice in England and Wales (RFL – Solicitors Regulation Authority) Chief...

Bar Council statement on contempt of court

Barrister Rajiv Menon KC has won an appeal on an important point of lack of jurisdiction. In a ruling on Tuesday, the Court of Appeal...

Litigation Funding, PACCAR, and the Battle for Access to Justice

In the context of English law, few technicalities have threatened to derail the machinery of justice as profoundly as the Supreme Court’s decision in...

Commercial Music to Commercial Law: Navigating an Unlikely Career Change

At Hyde Park, the stage is positioned so the performers can see the sun set behind the crowd. Eighty thousand silhouettes, the sky blazing...

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...

The Rule of Law for the modern age

On 13 January 2026, the Government launched its controversial TikTok page ‘SecureBordersUK’ depicting the deportation and/or removal of migrants. At the same time, the...

Up for grabs: Pensions as enforcement targets

For most judgment debtors, the balance sheet is brutally simple: a home, a pension, and not much else. The home is familiar territory for...

Police misconduct hearings post 2024 – Are they fair trials?

It has long been accepted that professional discipline hearings should be compliant with the European Convention of Human Rights Article 6(1) and the...

AI Hallucinations and the Discipline of Legal Authority

In 2023, if you had asked a room of lawyers what an “AI hallucination” was, many would have been unsure. That has changed quickly,...

How to Prepare for Mediation as Counsel: Twelve Terrific Tips

Mediation is now a routine component of the litigation game. In Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council the court changed the traditional litigation...

The Article 8 debate

Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) has long been a lightning rod for attacks on the application of human rights...

The Quiet Retreat from a Pupillage Application AI Ban

Over the past year, the proposition has circulated online and in the media that the use of generative artificial intelligence in pupillage applications submitted...

The Vanishing Court: Litigants in Person and the Future of Civil Justice

By Jacob J Meagher* According to Ministry of Justice statistics, in the County Court from July to September 2025 at least 59% of civil cases...

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