Features

Mrs Justice Vivien Rose talks to Anthony Inglese about her unusual route to the High Court bench  

In the small talk before going in to meet Her Majesty and being made a Dame Commander of the British Empire, the newly-appointed Mrs Justice Vivien Rose was asked, “Have you had to come far?”  

Steven Powles highlights the possible threats to democracy and the rule of law posed by the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership  

Ever since the general election, much attention has rightly focused on the government’s intention to scrap the Human Rights Act 1998.  

The diversity of the employed Bar  

A popular misconception when considering the employed Bar is assuming that roles are either in a solicitor’s firm or in the Government Legal Service or CPS. Dispelling this myth, Melissa Coutinho continues her series of 60 second interviews which demonstrate the diversity of work that employed lawyers undertake 

Not everything creepy happens at night...  

“Never make predictions, especially about the future” – Casey Stengel 

General editor: Pier Von berg
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781849465373
Date: September 2014
Price: £65.00 

Philip Forsang Ndikum describes how his training at the Bar of England and Wales equipped him for the challenges of practising law in Cameroon  

Africa in miniature 

Barrister, 9 Gough Square  

9 Gough Square is a leading common law set of barristers’ chambers based in London 

Neelam Sarkaria and Gerry Campbell argue that local authorities should be more proactive in bringing applications for FGM Protection Orders to combat the “great evil” of FGM  

“Given what we now know is the distressingly great prevalence of FGM in this country even today, some 30 years after FGM was first criminalised, it is sobering to reflect that this is not merely the first care case where FGM has featured but also, I suspect, if not the first one of only a handful of FGM cases that have yet found their way to the family courts…” (Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division 2015) 

Nkumbe Ekaney QC and Charlotte Proudman outline the key legislative changes on FGM introduced by the Serious Crime Act  

Female genital mutilation (FGM) now forms part of our political and public consciousness.  

David Wurtzel reviews the latest play by renowned playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz, which puts LASPO into dramatic form   

The Invisible  was written with the backing and help of the Legal Action Group, the Law Society and publicly funded lawyers.