Legal Personality

21/21 vision: Sir Mark Hedley, the retired senior family law judge, shares his lessons learnt from 21 years at the Bar and 21 years on the Bench

The Schools Consent Project (SCP) is educating tens of thousands of teenagers about the law around consent to challenge – and change – what is now endemic behaviour. Here, its founder, barrister Kate Parker talks to Chris Henley QC about SCP’s work and its association with Jodie Comer’s West End play Prima Facie , in which she plays a criminal barrister who is sexually assaulted

In a rare interview, Lord Reed talks to Anthony Inglese about fair work distribution, what makes good advocacy and the importance of judicial views being heard respectfully

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A call to action on access: Dr Gregory Burke's stark ‘lessons learnt’ as a disabled barrister and why chambers are showing a ‘failure of imagination’

The former Lord Chancellor chats to Anthony Inglese CB about his time as a criminal barrister, his proudest moments in office and another cause very close to his heart – promoting awareness of neurodiversity in all parts of the justice system

Suits you, ma’am? Rehna Azim investigates how retailers, designers, buyers and tailors see ‘professional women’ versus what we want to wear 

The criminal barrister, entrepreneur and dressmaker’s daughter is the first outfitter specialising in court attire for women barristers. Here, she talks to Dami Ojuri for IWD 2022 in the first of a new Counsel  interview series

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This Summer 2022, 24 Black graduates will be offered internships by over 70 sets of chambers. Here, Dawid Konotey-Ahulu – the barrister turned investment banker, entrepreneur and co-founder of 10KBI – explains why the mission was so compelling for him