Friday, April 4, 2025

Gifts and Grudges in the Financial Remedies Court

 By Julia Townend, Barrister at 4PB  Advances of...

Crisis at the Criminal Bar – a Law Student’s Perspective.

As a law student, witnessing the continuing...

Bar Standards Board publishes annual report on diversity of its workforce

The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has published...

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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...

The Power of Patterns in Forensics

By Professor Angela Gallop CBE, Group CEO at Forensic Access Ltd  Patterns can change the...

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...

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...

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...

Delays to surrogacy law reform creating risk for babies

Surrogacy is on the rise. Ministry of Justice statistics highlight a peak of 444 parental orders were made in 2019 and 435 in 2021...

Children in custody – Envisioning a way out.

In this article, pupil barrister Kitan Ososami discusses the problems with child imprisonment and how the new London Accommodation Pathfinder, a Youth Justice Board...

Can sentencing for police officer offenders be improved?

By Ellie Watson Pupil Barrister at Crown Prosecution Service, Manchester Introduction  Recent case law has uncovered difficulties faced by the courts when sentencing police officers. Fulford...

Assistance animals, access, and ableism

Recent media outlets reported multiple incidents of disabled people being forced to leave public premises due to having an assistance animal with them. By Christina...

Being a Barrister: New Beginnings

By Chevan Ilangaratne - Employment and PI/Clinical Negligence Barrister at St Philips Chambers For me, and I suspect many others, the nerves and excitement...

Taking the right decisions: how the Bar Standards Board builds checks and balances into its enforcement work?

By Mark Neale, Director General, Bar Standards Board Part of the stock-in-trade of constitutional lawyers is the concept of checks and balances – those safeguards...

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