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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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Neurodiversity: Why we need different brains at the bar.

By Sophie Stevens, Pupil Barrister at 9BR Chambers Beating the Stigma: Barristers are often told to put their best point first in advocacy, and you...

Family Law: Early Resolution, Out of Court Settlement and Delay in Family Proceedings

There is a significant backlog of cases in the family courts, both in terms of public and private law family proceedings.  While there has...

Medicine and the law – where criminal and civil law overlap

By Rozhin Shabbak, LLB Law Graduate  Case Law Bawa-Garba v General Medical Council EWCA Civ 1879 As the law stands, doctors are not exempt from gross...

The impact of the Financial Crisis on Divorce

For several months now, families have been feeling the pressure of the financial crisis. As inflation rises, the cost of living has rocketed, and...

Why isn’t mediation used more often in regulatory and public law cases?

By Josef Cannon, barrister and mediator, Cornerstone Barristers Mediation has a remarkable success rate for resolving disputes: the latest research (from the Centre for Effective...

Private prosecutions: The quiet battle against illegal streaming

The world of private prosecutions has taken a bit of a beating. Once hailed as an effective alternative to state prosecutions, they are now...

Use of the Beth Din as a Forum for Determining Civil Disputes

Owing to what many Orthodox Jews regard as a biblical prohibition against litigating their disputes in secular courts, there has developed over many centuries...

Barristers can change the world – but as lawyers not “activists”

A few weeks ago, I was invited to sign the Declaration of Conscience, in which more than 150 barristers pledged not to prosecute climate...

BHD and the Bar: Zero Compromise to Zero Tolerance

At the outset of 2023, I set out five goals for my year as Chair of the Young Bar of England & Wales: 1)...

100 Years of Female Barristers at the Bar

This year marks a century since the first woman was called to the Bar by Gray’s Inn. On the 13th of June 1923, Edith Hesling,...

Barristers’ chambers secures private equity investment from LDC .  Technology and flexibility, an advantage for the “21st century Bar” 

The Barrister Group (TBG) has secured private equity backing from LDC in what is believed to be the first such investment in the Bar...

Post-Brexit mutual free movement of people for UK & EU is becoming ‘critical’

It is becoming increasingly clear that the UK and the EU must strike a post-Brexit mutual free movement of people agreement if they are...

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...

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