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42 Bedford Row is a leading common law set of chambers with over 100 barristers who focus on specialist practice areas within civil and family law 

The raw numbers in today’s Silk cohort are illuminating, finds David Wurtzel, and raise wider questions as to whether a more diverse and representative rank can be achieved through a merit-based system alone  

The list of new Queen’s Counsel was published in January.  

Elsa Booth explores the vibrant Manchester commercial and Chancery Bars and considers whether, in this age of connectivity, the term ‘regional’ is becoming less applicable  

At a Manchester Civil Justice Centre event last year, Mr Justice Norris suggested that in the legal world, the term ‘provinces’ is redundant and even ‘regional’ is under pressure.  

BEWCC’s James Cartwright delivers the match report from Brisbane and heralds the revival of the historic Bar v Clerks game  

A person glimpsing 17 English (and Welsh) barristers in Brisbane might have thought that some sort of conference might be taking place, but a moment’s eavesdropping, or observation (the kit), would have left no doubt but that their transportation to Australia was for the purpose of playing cricket for the Bar in the fifth Lawyers Cricket World Cup. 

Whether the Inners or Outers win the day, the long-standing internecine fighting over Europe will not go away, writes Mark Hatcher  

In less than three months’ time the British people will decide whether to remain in or out of the European Union.  

'Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans' – John Lennon  

In which we learn what really matters 

Dennis Kavanagh considers the Supreme Court’s judgment in Jogee – or the life and death of the doctrine of parasitic liability – and what it means for practitioners, the public and jurisprudence more generally  

At para 11 of the judgment of the Supreme Court in R v Jogee  [2016] UKSC 8, Lord Neuberger reflects that when it comes to joint enterprise criminality, ‘numbers often matter’. 

As well as being a barrister, remember you are an unpaid tax collector, says Tony Reynolds, who advises best financial practice from the start of your legal career  

HMRC has for some years targeted its compliance activity across a range of professions.  

Fiona Jackson introduces the new Bar Council guidance which aims to help chambers better handle claims of sexual harassment  

According to recent research, it seems that incidents of sexual harassment are rarer than when I was first Called (Snapshot: The Experience of Self-Employed Women at the Bar , 2015). 

Dr Liora Lazarus looks at the status and justification of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’s decision on Assange  

The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) decision on Assange was initially met with incredulity from British officials, legal academics and the international press, who called it ‘ridiculous', ‘ludicrous’ and ‘unjustified’.