Features

The Leaders report on the form and function of the Circuits today: what makes the Circuit structure work, how it represents individual voices and how it meets the profession’s needs  

Dianne Martin and Dr Kate Harrington recount their respective experiences of setting up, and undertaking, one of the Bar’s first part-time pupillages and consider its wider applicability  

Mark Hatcher reports on the launch by the Opposition of its Review of Legal Aid and on the debate surrounding the progress of a UK Bill of Rights  

‘If we want a rights-based society with equal access to justice, we have to pay for it,’ said Jeremy Corbyn at the Labour Party’s Legal Aid Summit last month. 

Peter Grieves-Smith and Sarah Wood report on the use of iPads as jury bundles in a recent fraud trial and examine whether this is the next stage in the evolution of our courts 

Always expect the unexpected  

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door”– Milton Berle 

Author: Thomas Grant QC
Publisher: John Murray, June 2015
ISBN-13: 978-1444799736
Hardback: £25.00 

Paul Marshall considers the legal concept of a homeless person and some lawyers who have volunteered at Christmas explain how readers can help  

The dessicated calculus of vulnerability has yet to find its Jonathan Swift. 

As the Legal Year opens after its long vacation, Ian Glen QC examines the holidaying realities for most practitioners  

On 31 July I appeared in front of a proper High Court Judge.  

Joint Head of Chambers  

Drystone Chambers is one of the UK’s leading multi-disciplinary sets, based in London. 

Last month Counsel reported on the Snapshot survey of women at the Bar, and the issues it raised. Here, HHJ Deborah Taylor and Rachel Langdale QC explain the Temple Women’s Forum and the events it holds to highlight these issues  

The Temple Women’s Forum was founded to encourage and support women barristers throughout their careers and so increase retention within the profession.