Features

The latest developments on money claims  

There is much good news to report. 

Rachel Spearing reviews the results from the Bar Council’s first survey of the wellbeing of the profession  

The Bar, by its very nature, is a stressful place to work, regardless of Call, practice area or status and we are all aware of the levels of stigma associated with displaying any sign of weakness.  

As the Bar Standards Board reviews pupillages and prepares to consult on the present Bar training system, Guy Fetherstonhaugh QC looks back at their evolution  

In February 2015, the Bar Standards Board (BSB) published Future Bar Training : a programme of review and reform aimed at updating its regulation of training for and at the Bar.  

Anthony Inglese CB with his second and final look at the lawyers to be found in the corridors of Whitehall  

A young Government Legal Service barrister is giving his first piece of advice to a Famous Top Political Figure. 

Mark Hatcher on the General Election, the new Lord Chancellor, members of the Bar elected to the Commons and the first all-Tory meeting of the Cabinet for 18 years  

We were seduced into believing there would be a hung Parliament.  

Michael Zander QC considers the Justice Committee’s Report on the Criminal Cases Review Commission  

The House of Commons Justice Select Committee’s report on the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) makes several strong recommendations but on the central topic it passes the buck to the Law Commission. 

A night to remember?  

“Change and decay in all around I see” – Henry F. Lyte 

Head of Chambers, Lamb Chambers  

Lamb Chambers is an established civil set specialising in property, commercial, personal injury and clinical negligence, employment and intellectual property law. 

Christian Wisskirchen outlines the international work of the Bar Council 

Cross-examination of the vulnerable witness in R v FA: the Court of Appeal takes the ground rules approach and shows what direction such hearings must take, writes Penny Cooper  

“It will never be in the interests of justice that witnesses should be subjected to bullying and intimidatory tactics by counsel or to deliberately and unnecessarily prolonged cross-examination.” - Sir Brian Leveson (2015), Review of Efficiency in Criminal Proceedings , para 264