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By Gifty Edila 

Reports from the Annual and Young Bar Conference 2019 

After a lifetime working in the industrial relations field, how does the barrister champion of the trade union movement see the law, art of advocacy and today’s judgecraft?

Building your personal resilience is possibly the best career move you’ll ever make – recognise burn-out and try these strategies for repair 

If there’s one thing that defines what the new Chair of the Bar wants to achieve, it’s removing barriers. Amanda Pinto QC talks to Kate Brunner QC about access to the profession, equitable briefing and why the profile of senior Bar politics has to change

A rough guide for pupils on the more informal rules and idiosyncratic mannerisms of the Bar: the legal Twitter hive mind sifts the daft and defunct from the customs that really matter, distilled by Lucy Reed  

What was it like working as a junior junior on the controversial prorogation case—and will any case be the same again? A pupil’s account of the historic day

The growth in ‘county lines’ cases involving young defendants, themselves victims of trafficking, poses particular issues: practical steps that may assist practitioners and recent case law principles

Crucial perspective - Clare Wade QC   highlights points of alert for practitioners defending and prosecuting cases involving abused women who have killed