Features

Following a five-year review, three consultations and concerted efforts to make it more evenly distributed, the new age of education begins in autumn 2020 – Catherine Baksi's  guide to the regime and its providers

Happy #IWD2020 #EachforEqual! Five sisters in law – barristers Lousia Collins, Rebecca Hill, Gemma Rose, Alexandra Wilson and Alexa Le Moine of 5SAH – share their views on life and work at the Bar, keeping/retrieving the faith, and the strength and support of a united and collective voice  

Andrew Otchi e reviews the film based on the book Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption  by Bryan Stevenson.  Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. UK release date: 17 January 2020

Practice makes perfect

Handel’s Israel in Egypt , revived before Christmas, in Birmingham’s Victoria Law Courts, by Advocati under the direction of John Saunders, is scarcely unbiased. A review by Roderick Dunnett 

Time to rethink the Bar’s approach to diversity and inclusion? To ensure that difference makes  a difference, we must get to the root of the problem and commit to structural change – Zeenat Islam  shares her thoughts

Time to rethink the Bar’s approach to diversity and inclusion? To ensure that difference makes  a difference, we must get to the root of the problem and commit to structural change – Zeenat Islam  shares her thoughts

Paul Harris  looks at Hong Kong’s long tradition of peaceful and constitutionally protected street demonstrations