PJ Kirby KC, self-confessed technophobe, considers why barristers are reluctant to embrace data and analytics, whether we should be doing more with data, and how others in the litigation process are using it
Legal innovation or risky business? asks Aaron Mayers
Discriminatory algorithms, AI hallucinations and data privacy – Sara Ibrahim looks at the key risks for lawyers
An elegant experiment – but what does the Tokyo AI mock trial actually show? ask William Blair and Takashi Kubota*
The Bar stands to gain by aligning its use of AI with improvements in access to justice and our working lives, write Harry Hodgkin and Stephen Ward
Why it matters whether a barrister is in rateable occupation of their room in a set of chambers, or chambers is held to be in rateable occupation. By Clive Moys
Opportunity or risk? Alison Hook looks behind the headlines and investigates what the latest gesture on liberalising the Indian legal sector really means for the Bar
Hammad Baig reports back from the Bar Council delegations to Kenya and Tanzania
Rebekah Wilson and Claire Methven O’Brien examine human rights abuses and profit-making in corporate children’s homes
Brexit shows that our late 19th century uncodified constitution should be replaced by a 21st century written one, argues Austen Morgan
Chair of the Bar Sam Townend KC encourages colleagues to take a proper break over summer and highlights recent events and key activities for autumn
Cayman Island
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Cayman Islands Government, is currently inviting applications
Casedo explains how to hit the ground running on your next case with a four-step plan to transform the way you work
Your future self will thank you, says Louise Crush of Westgate Wealth
In the first of a new series, Louise Crush of Westgate Wealth considers the fundamental need for financial protection
Unlocking your aged debt to fund your tax in one easy step. By Philip N Bristow
Possibly, but many barristers are glad he did…
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
Sir Geoffrey Vos, Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice since January 2021, is well known for his passion for access to justice and all things digital. Perhaps less widely known is the driven personality and wanderlust that lies behind this, as Anthony Inglese CB discovers
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
Art, including music, should be protected as a fundamental form of freedom of expression and not used to unfairly implicate individuals, argues Ifẹ Thompson
Jasvir Singh trails this summer’s celebrations, open to all and with the theme ‘Free to Be Me’, by focusing on the diversity of South Asian heritage barristers and judges, and the trailblazers who led the way