Features

Blind shortlisting – in its infancy at the Bar – is gaining pace in other professions. Occupational Psychologist Bindi Dholakia reports  

Tomb and Temple: Re-imagining the Sacred Buildings of Jerusalem 
Editor: Robin Griffith-Jones and Eric Fernie
Publisher: Boydell (May 2018) 
ISBN: 9781783272808 

CBA Wellbeing Director Sarah Vine is persuaded to share a typical day in the life – in the beleaguered but beloved criminal Bar 

Looking out, looking in: in a interview with Gary Younge,  The Guardian’s editor-at-large, Desiree Artesi explores diversity solutions and the Bar’s parallels with the media sector  

Mark Fell explains how to handle diary clashes ethically while protecting the bottom line. Christopher Convey alerts the Bar to the new money laundering guidance  

Walden Back in Session 
Author: Peter Murphy
Publisher: No Exit Press (May 2018)
ISBN: 9780857302038 

One Law for the Rest of Us 
Author: Peter Murphy
Publisher: No Exit Press (December 2018)
ISBN: 9780857301406 

Allan Briddock examines a significantly widened definition of ‘marriage of convenience’ and how the new test could catch out many genuine relationships  

Best books, favourite films, top tracks and an essential:  Counsel invites barristers to share their cultural influences. In this issue, we talk to James Cartwright, a criminal barrister at 1MCB who also paints, sculpts and runs BEWCC, the cricket team representing the Bar in the Lawyers Cricket World Cup which he co-founded.  

Australia and the United States are increasingly using animals to support effective participation in courts. Will it catch on over here? Professor Penny Cooper explores the issues to consider in England and Wales