Features

Emily Henderson looks at the cross-examining of vulnerable witnesses and asks whether this supposed jewel in the adversarial crown is being successfully reformed by the courts.  

Conventionally, cross-examination is regarded as the jewel in the adversarial crown. However, 30 years of empirical research has shown it to be highly unreliable as a means of investigating the evidence of vulnerable people in particular. 

Regaining the art of co-operation: Andrew Ritchie QC on the case for arbitration for personal injury and clinical negligence claims.  

Many shipping, building and commercial disputes are resolved by arbitration. So why is arbitration not used to resolve personal injury and clinical negligence claims? 

Illari Aragón explains the importance of this December’s Conference of the Parties (COP 20) in Peru and the pursuit of a new climate change agreement.  

In December this year representatives of the world will convene in Lima, Peru, in an attempt to reach a new climate agreement to curb emissions of greenhouse gases and to deal with the impacts of climate change. 

The decision of the Privy Council in Fairfield Sentry v Migani is of considerable importance to funds which employ certification mechanisms.   

It will also be of note in relation to instruments employing market-based triggers, for example convertible loan notes. Here we discuss the implications of the decision for certification and those responsible for issuing such certificates. 

Imminent reform of the rules of jurisdiction and enforcement of foreign judgments in the European Union.  

A revised regime of jurisdiction and enforcement of foreign judgments will apply in the EU to proceedings commenced on or after 15 January 2015. This article considers key changes introduced by the recast Judgments Regulation and comments on their efficacy. 

Helen Tung and Laura Newton report on their time in a Korean law firm on the Bar Council placement programme.  

From 28 April to 9 May 2014, six English barristers represented the Bar of England and Wales on an exchange programme organised jointly by the Bar Council and the Korean Bar Association (KBA). 

Cyber Crime Law and Practice  

Matthew Richardson 

Wildy 

March 2014 

ISBN: 0854901361 

£95 

Detection and Preservation of Assets in Financial Remedy Claims  

Nigel Dyer QC and Juliet Chapman 

Butterworths Law 

April 2014 

ISBN-13/ISSN: 9781405774048 

£110 

David Wurtzel reviews this year’s Kalisher event, a production of Witness for the Prosecution in Middle Temple Hall in May.  

There can be few better causes than the Kalisher Trust, founded in 1996 for the purpose of helping talented students and young barristers with limited means who want to practice in criminal law. 

Andrew Clarke QC reviews the Bar Choral Society’s inaugural concert.  

On 23 June, the Bar Choral Society (BSC) gave its inaugural concert in Temple Church. It is idle to speculate as to why it has taken the Bar so long to have a choir of its own.