Features

With a regulatory agenda driven by transparency and an increasingly competitive marketplace, customer service should be uppermost in barristers’ minds, writes Julie Clarke  

In January 2016, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launched a market study into the provision of legal services in England and Wales across a range of legal areas – including immigration, family and employment – to see whether they are working effectively for individuals and small businesses.  

The Legal Education Foundation’s fellowship scheme for training social welfare lawyers is being extended to barristers. Matthew Smerdon explains why he hopes the fellows will become future leaders of the profession  

The Legal Education Foundation exists to help people better understand and use the law.  

Brexit provides new context for the UK’s role in the Council of Bar and Law Societies of Europe – particularly its scrutiny of the European Court of Human Rights’ excessive caseload, as Piers Gardner explains  

Recognised as the voice of the European legal profession, the Council of Bar and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) represents, through its members, more than one million European lawyers.  

As the new pupils settle in, Daniel Sokol offers his views on the challenges of pupillage  

Final-year medical students in the UK spend several weeks shadowing the most junior doctor in a hospital – the ‘F1’ – to get a sense of life as a doctor.  

Author: John McKendrick QC
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd (2016)
Hardcover: 288pp
ISBN: 978-1780273204
Price: £20 

Associate in Quinn Emanuel’s London office  

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart is a 650+ attorney top tier business litigation firm with 20 offices around the globe, each devoted solely to business litigation and arbitration. 

Is it ever too late to prosecute historic allegations? Richard Jory QC and Sam Jones consider whether it’s time for a rethink  

On 14 June 2016, the resident judge at Exeter Crown Court stayed all further proceedings against M, at 97 years old the oldest defendant so far to have stood trial in a Crown Court in England and Wales.  

Guy Fetherstonhaugh QC explains why the pupillage application timing has changed and outlines wider efforts to right wrongs of the old system  

For as long as I can remember, students applying for a university place in this country have had to go through a centralised scheme (now UCAS).  

Mark Hatcher on the Great Repeal Bill, legal black holes and bonfires of red tape that will dominate Whitehall and Westminster for the foreseeable future  

The Foreign Office document published at the beginning of the year which outlined the process for withdrawing from the European Union (Cm 9216) was unequivocal.