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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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Are you an unwitting sponsor – could you be a more effective conscious sponsor?

  How sponsorship helps career development with relatively little effort. At the ICWA garden party in June 2025  Lady Simler’s keynote address contained a powerful call...

Virtually Criminal? Sexual Violence in the Metaverse

Virtually (adv.) Nearly / Almost By means of virtual reality techniques It has long been recognised that with new technology comes new variants of criminal activity....

From Compliance to Commitment: Embedding EDI in the Legal Profession

Disability Pride Month (“DPM”) is approaching, and an opportunity to discuss the positive impact the Bar Standards Board’s (the “BSB”) package of Equality, Diversity...

What external counsel can learn from in-house teams

By Rich Hanstock // external lawyers often win clients by projecting total self-assuredness. it takes humility and self-awareness to separate confidence from hubris. One of the most...

A plea for more pro bono work

As I write this article, I anticipate that the majority, if not all of the readers will have undertaken some form of pro bono...

How the Bar Standards Board could Accelerate Innovation at the Bar

Back in September 2020, we forecast the increased emergence of genuine ‘Bar firms’ which emulate firms of solicitors but are owned and managed by...

The State of English Justice

“Oh dear, how sad, never mind.”  This is the almost sotto voce retort from anyone in power with responsibility for every aspect of the...

The Advantages and Limitations when using the services of a paralegal

  By Amanda Hamilton, Patron, National Association of Licensed Paralegals (NALP)  Many people and/or businesses faced with an issue that involves an element of legality turn...

From Medicine to the Law: a reasonable course of action?

Dr Urmila Roy, Barrister, North Square Barristers By way of background, I qualified as a doctor in 2008 and have worked in the NHS since....

A joust with HMRC and the application of BTI v Sequana in the Trusts context

By Alexander Farara, barrister, 1EC As I write not less than 48 hours after the surprise revival of David Cameron, it is perhaps befitting to...

Modernising the business of the bar, a clerk’s perspective

The barrister’s profession has a long history of tradition and stability. Barristers were officially recognised as “men” learned in the law for the first...

 ‘Raising the bar for others’- my journey to the bar’.

Single parent working class family- a phrase not commonly associated with a career at the bar, but times are swiftly changing. I began my...

ESG Leases: Brave new world or false dawn?

Introduction The UK Government has set a target for decarbonising all sectors of the UK economy to reach Net Zero by 2050. That includes real...

The Spire Foundation beginnings

In 2016, we broke away from being a fully common law set, re-naming as Spire Barristers and re-branding to become the only specialist Family...

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