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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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Reporting in Family Courts

By Stuart Barlow, Solicitor, Family Law Specialist  To make sure that children, vulnerable adults and families are protected from unwanted publicity, restrictions have been...

Have we really reformed animal welfare post-Brexit?

By Ayesha Smart, Barrister, 33 Bedford Row  “High standards of animal welfare are one of the hallmarks of a civilised society” This is something that the...

The Legal Limbo of Cohabitants: Time for Reform?

By Sophia Gonella, Pupil Barrister at Queen Elizabeth Building Introduction The promise of cohabitation reform has, once again, been thwarted by the government. On 1 November...

Re-thinking litigation workflows for the 21st century

When I started my career as a barrister in the early 1990s, many of our working practices had been unchanged for decades, in some...

The International Law Framework – Establishing Violence Against Women and Girls as a Human Rights Abuse

This article provides a brief synopsis of the international legal framework addressing violence against women. It is not intended to be exhaustive but will address...

Drama in the courtroom: Defending the rights of children diagnosed with autis

  Mickey Keenan1 & Karola Dillenburger2 School of Psychology, Ulster University, N. Ireland Centre for Behaviour Analysis, Queen’s University Belfast, N. Ireland Abstract Children diagnosed with autism have the...

EU legislation set to further tighten regulations on use of communications data

By Ron Moscona, Dorsey & Whitney, LLP We live in a connected world and often we take for granted that our smartphones and other devices...

Defending private prosecutions

By Nicola O’Connor is a Partner at Russell-Cooke A defendant facing a private prosecution is a somewhat different experience to being prosecuted by the Crown...

Improving Access to Justice? What the Changes to Cost Capping in Planning and Environmental Claims Really Mean?

Killian Garvey, planning & environmental law barrister at Kings Chambers, discusses the recent High Court ruling to re-impose fixed costs for disputes in planning...

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