Features

It's been a wildly different transition to second six than anticipated:  Lachlan Stewart  explains what it's like to be a pupil 'on their feet' during the pandemic

Foreign patents could prevent UK citizens accessing treatment for COVID-19, warns Professor Mark Engelman  

Is it really  true that COVID-19 is the virus that does not discriminate? Glenn Parsons  investigates  

With mini pupillages and other work experience cancelled, Zeenat Islam  explains how Learning for Lawyers – REDEFINED is helping to unlock the law for those struggling to access opportunities

Young barristers want to be in court but they do not want this at the expense of their health or the expense of their clients, writes Katherine Duncan 

From the first entirely remote hearing of lockdown to present day, the Bar has rapidly acclimatised to conducting trials by video. Michael Mylonas QC  introduces one chambers’ verdict on what’s worked, what hasn’t and what it might all mean for future practice

Judge-alone trials should not be immediately discarded as inevitably inimical to the interests of justice and have been operating uncontroversially in Canada as an expansion of defence rights for many decades, writes Laura Hoyano 
 

Paperless advocacy has fast become essential for any barrister working in our court system during the pandemic. Part 2 of this two-part series shows you how, step-by-step, to make your e-bundle fully searchable, insert/remove pages, and annotate – using Adobe Acrobat and PDF Expert 

By Darren Howe QC, Elizabeth Isaacs QC, Matthew Maynard, Matthew Richardson and Lucy Maxwell  

Stephen Simblet QC on why the idea that important hearings will be resolved by anonymous figures blinking into a webcam from their kitchen, living room or shed, is a worry 

Broadcasting deals for on-screen sentencing: a decontextualised gift to bad-faith editors? Why we shouldn’t lose sight of the risks to open justice. By The Secret Barrister