Legal Personality

Driven by a heightened awareness of race discrimination and the importance of equality, Dame Ingrid talks to Anthony Inglese CB about her career, being a respectful judge and why cultural change is crucial to increasing diversity in the legal professions

Advocate is delighted to announce the winners of the 2022 Bar Pro Bono Awards 

The Shadow Attorney General thought she had the best job in the world as a criminal barrister until she got a taste for politics. Now an ‘advocate for people’, Emily Thornberry MP talks to Anthony Inglese CB about her career and why there aren’t enough lawyers in Parliament

How to develop a champion’s mindset: Blondel Thompson, the former British and Commonwealth record-holder and now an international criminal and sports law barrister and arbitrator, shares ‘lessons learnt’ from the world of athletics

Organising logistics for Ukrainian servicemen, training in the Voluntary Formation of Territorial Defense, responding on behalf of the profession to the war’s acute legal challenges, and managing a law practice – now all in a day’s work for Andriy Savchuk

The teenager from Pakistan who qualified as a barrister via an alternative route (and a series of ‘blessings in disguise’) says there is still work to be done to improve diversity and inclusion in the conventional path to the Bar

Her career an ‘inspiring arc of achievement’, the girl from Cardiff became the third ever full-time female Old Bailey judge. Now freed by her retirement, HH Wendy Joseph KC talks to Chris Henley KC about Jogee ’s lack of impact, judicial diversity failings and Unlawful Killings 

Daniel Stilitz QC, legal adviser to the Sue Gray ‘Partygate’ investigation, reflects on the role of a barrister and why it is in danger of being misunderstood 

Sometimes, the path you intend to walk is not the one you take... 

The first minister to resign at ‘Partygate’ talks to Anthony Inglese CB about his Liverpool Jewish roots, his time in government – and continued public service in the Lords