Features

From the first entirely remote hearing of lockdown to present day, the Bar has rapidly acclimatised to conducting trials by video. Michael Mylonas QC  introduces one chambers’ verdict on what’s worked, what hasn’t and what it might all mean for future practice

Judge-alone trials should not be immediately discarded as inevitably inimical to the interests of justice and have been operating uncontroversially in Canada as an expansion of defence rights for many decades, writes Laura Hoyano 
 

Paperless advocacy has fast become essential for any barrister working in our court system during the pandemic. Part 2 of this two-part series shows you how, step-by-step, to make your e-bundle fully searchable, insert/remove pages, and annotate – using Adobe Acrobat and PDF Expert 

By Darren Howe QC, Elizabeth Isaacs QC, Matthew Maynard, Matthew Richardson and Lucy Maxwell  

Stephen Simblet QC on why the idea that important hearings will be resolved by anonymous figures blinking into a webcam from their kitchen, living room or shed, is a worry 

Broadcasting deals for on-screen sentencing: a decontextualised gift to bad-faith editors? Why we shouldn’t lose sight of the risks to open justice. By The Secret Barrister  

Shortcomings and legal anachronisms: how can we achieve best evidence if current guidance is dangerously out of date on the law on special measures? asks Laura Hoyano

Missing the print format? See the May 2020 flickable virtual issue here.

The newly appointed Chair of the Public Law Project on isolation, teamwork and why institutions are invaluable in effecting systemic legal change. Interview by Isabel Buchanan  

Lucy Reed shares a page from the self-isolation diary, the early days: adapting to a completely new working environment and coping with the unexpected presence of the kids at home