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Looking Beyond The Picture: How To Trust Video Evidence

By David Spreadborough, Certified Forensic Video Analyst I last wrote here for the Easter term of The Barrister in 2018 and honestly, where has the time gone? Considering all the troubles over the last two years though, it is not...
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The Power of Patterns in Forensics

By Professor Angela Gallop CBE, Group CEO at Forensic Access Ltd  Patterns can change the...
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As with most things, the cheapest option is not always the best

Price is currently the main deciding factor for the instruction of an expert witness...
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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...

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...

The Bar Standards Board and the Bar Council agree protocol for handling reports of bullying, harassment and sexual harassment

Following the appointment of the Commissioner for Conduct, a recommendation of the Harman Review, the Bar Standards Board (BSB) and the Bar Council’s (BC)...

The Bar Standards Board appoints four new Board members

The Bar Standards Board (BSB) is delighted to announce the appointment of one new lay Board member and three new barrister Board members. Professor...

Time to ratify the safety convention, says Bar Council 

  The Bar Council is calling on the UK Government to ratify the Council of Europe’s Convention on the Protection of the Profession of Lawyer...

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...

Jury proposals “a cure worse than the disease” – founding head of Doughty Street Chambers, Geoffrey Robertson KC

To coincide with this week’s committee stage of the Courts and Tribunals Bill, which threatens to significantly restrict jury trials, the Bar Council is...

The Bar Standards Board publishes its 2026-27 Business Plan

The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has published its annual business plan which details our activities and commitments for 2026-27. The year ahead will see the BSB improve...

Barristers urge government to deliver specialist courts for sexual and domestic abuse cases, instead of restricting jury trials

Barristers are calling on the government to honour its 2024 manifesto promise and set up specialist sexual and domestic abuse courts, rather than restrict...

Leveson: Government must address systemic criminal court inefficiency and stop wasting time on restricting jury trials – Bar Council

Sir Brian Leveson has published Part 2 of his independent review of the criminal courts. Key recommendations in the report echo those that the...

Mark Neale to stand down as Director General of the Bar Standards Board

 Mark Neale has decided to bring forward a planned retirement and stand down as Director General of the Bar Standards Board after six years...

Oxbridge graduates dominate Bar pupillages, with first-class honours degrees and some how appears to be the norm

Just over half (53%) of future barristers at top sets went to Oxford or Cambridge, with only 11% coming from non-Russell Group universities, according...

Bar Council and BSB establish steering group to implement Harman report

The Bar Council and the Bar Standards Board (BSB) agree on the need for urgent and concerted action with the profession to tackle bullying,...

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