Melissa Coutinho

Melissa Coutinho is a lawyer for the Government Legal Service An accredited arbitrator, qualified PPM practitioner and a magistrate, she also writes and lectures on medical products and their regulation.

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Regulation: Carrot or stick, here to stay

The theme of this year’s Employed Bar Conference was regulation. Melissa Coutinho takes a look. The recent Employed Bar Conference (EBC) was particularly successful this time, ...

31 August 2013

A Week in the Life

Melissa Coutinho, co-Chair of the Employed Bar, reports back to Counsel from the 2012 conference. A gloriously and unseasonably hot March 21st this year, saw barristers hurrying ...

30 June 2012

Herbal Medicines - A changing landscape

Regulatory practitioners and those who favour complementary health therapy should be aware of changes in the practice of herbal medicine, writes Melissa Coutinho. There cannot be ...

31 January 2012

Vintage Rumpole

A seasoned troupe of actors performed two radio plays, Rumpole on Trial and Rumpole and the Right to Privacy, for this year’s Kalisher Scholarship fundraising event, writes Melissa ...

31 August 2011

Snapshots from the Employed Bar

The Employed Barristers’ Committee represents the interests of the Employed Bar. Major David Hammond, Royal Marines, highlights the breadth of roles carried out by employed ...

10 March 2011

A United Bar

Melissa Coutinho reports on the Employed Bar Conference. Hogarth’s painting of St Paul’s impassioned plea before Felix in the Old Hall at Lincoln’s Inn provided a fitting backdrop ...

31 October 2009

Recognition & Retention

Flexible working—hardly revolutionary, but underused at the Bar—is the answer to female retention. But it must be adequately rewarded, writes Melissa Coutino.

31 January 2009

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