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Disconnect – the state of court language services

Susan Grocott KC reports on the realities of interpreting and translation services in the courts, drawing on Bar Council Legal Services Committee evidence to the recent House of ...

02 April 2025 / Susan Grocott KC

Gender and fair access to work 2025

HHJ Emma Nott looks again at work allocation and receipts at the publicly funded Bar to see if any of the measures put in place since she started reporting seven years ago, are ...

10 March 2025 / HHJ Emma Nott

Sentencing of pregnant women: a 21st century approach

Maya Sikand KC and Janey Starling, co-authors of a new toolkit, Representing pregnant women and mothers in the criminal justice system, believe that advocates can play a critical ...

10 March 2025 / Maya Sikand KC / Janey Starling

Financial remedies on divorce: data-driven reform

With thousands of D81 forms filed every week, why aren’t we analysing this data to determine the best model of reform? ask Sir Nicholas Mostyn and Holly Symonds

10 March 2025 / Holly Symonds / Sir Nicholas Mostyn

Intersectionality and earnings

From a ‘difficult woman with attitude’ to a ‘rainmaker’ – Paramjit Ahluwalia talks about her experience of intersectionality at the Bar, examines the data on disparity of earnings ...

10 March 2025 / Paramjit Ahluwalia

VAWG: an effective roadmap to justice

Labour’s pledge to halve VAWG is a welcome step, but risks becoming an empty promise without systemic reform, says Dr Charlotte Proudman

10 March 2025 / Dr Charlotte Proudman

Free Chow Hang Tung

Britain must not forget its legal responsibilities to Hong Kong, writes former Chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Paul Harris

06 March 2025 / Paul Harris SC

Employed Bar 2024 report

Heidi Stonecliffe KC, 2024 Chair of the Employed Barristers’ Committee, reflects on her year at the helm and progress made in implementing the Life at the Employed Bar Report 2023 ...

10 February 2025 / Heidi Stonecliffe KC

A system in crisis – the voices of the silent

There is widespread acknowledgement that the criminal justice system, and in particular the trial and appellate processes, are failing women. Emma Torr reports on a system in ...

10 February 2025 / Emma Torr

The Deaf Legal Network

Matthew Banks introduces the Deaf Legal Network, a new forum bringing together lawyers and the deaf community to overcome the barriers experienced by deaf people in accessing the ...

10 February 2025 / Matthew Banks

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