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The future of race equality at the Bar

To mark the fifth anniversary of the Bar Standards Board’s Race Equality Taskforce, Dee Sekar reflects on key milestones, the role of regulation in race equality, and calls for views on the upcoming equality rules consultation

13 August 2024 / Dee Sekar
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Respect is everything

The Harman Review is a seminal moment for the Bar and provides an opportunity to promote tolerance and inclusivity as core values, says Dr Arun Midha

13 August 2024 / Dr Arun Midha
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Pension pitfalls

Paul Newman KC looks at two of the many legal issues that affect the provision of pensions in the UK – invalid amendment and discrimination

13 August 2024 / Paul Newman KC
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Law & Disorder

How to start a podcast? Former High Court judge Sir Nicholas Mostyn explains how he joined forces with Lord Falconer and Baroness Helena Kennedy KC to develop and present their weekly legal podcast

13 August 2024 / Sir Nicholas Mostyn
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Violent disorder or outright terrorism?

Britain needs to get over its shameful denial of racism, call it what it is and start to effectively deal with the problem, says Vithyah Chelvam 

06 August 2024 / Vithyah Chelvam
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Prisons: a foreseeable crisis

An epic failure of public policy has filled our crumbling prisons to capacity, says Lord Ken Macdonald KC. How did we get here, and what might reform look like?

25 July 2024 / Lord Ken Macdonald KC
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Disclosure: the full picture

In this update on his Independent Review of Disclosure, Jonathan Fisher KC focuses on the miscellany of problems which need to be addressed right across the disclosure regime 

10 July 2024 / Jonathan Fisher KC
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The presumption that computers are reliable

Stephen Mason sets out how the legal presumption, which exposed widespread misunderstanding about the nature of computer failures and caused serious widespread injustice, came into effect 

10 July 2024 / Stephen Mason
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Racial justice and the law: where do we go from here?

The legal system has been both a help and a hindrance, says Bharat Malkani who reflects on the relationship between law and racial justice in the run-up to the 60th anniversary of the Race Relations Act 

10 July 2024 / Dr Bharat Malkani
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Is the law really protecting our wildlife?

Marcia Hyde and Carol Day examine wildlife’s dire decline and the lack of effective legal remedy. Using the examples of the badger and hen harrier, they illustrate how difficult it can be to use the law for the purpose it was enacted 

10 July 2024 / Marcia Hyde / Carol Day
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