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'Hate speech'

The issue. The law. A possible way forward. By Jonathan Price  

29 October 2018 / Jonathan Price
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Extraordinary Working Lives: Chris Daw QC

Chris Daw QC contrasts two days in the life: a building labourer in a sub-zero winter to a documentary-making Silk for primetime TV whose film went viral on LinkedIn  

29 October 2018 / Chris Daw KC
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Extraordinary Working Lives: Mukhtiar Singh

Not an ordinary day-in-the-life for social mobility advocate Mukhtiar Singh, as he moves to new chambers and reflects on his unusual route to the Bar after 20 years as a police detective  

29 October 2018 / Mukhtiar Singh
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Putting the case, in every case

‘Think very carefully’ before agreeing to go just with the ABE video interview, Hallett VP has warned. Laura Hoyano explains why a tactical decision not to cross-examine a competent vulnerable witness is a risky strategy  

29 October 2018 / Laura Hoyano
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Electoral law: unfit for the 21st century?

With democracy at risk there’s no excuse for legislative inaction, argue Alison Foster QC, Tom Tabori and Gethin Thomas who make the case for reform and put forward proposals for change  

29 October 2018 / Tom Tabori / Alison Foster KC / Gethin Thomas
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Video and live-link evidence: state of play

Special measures, lingering live-link issues and banishing generalisations: as the s 28 roll-out hits the buffers, Laura Hoyano examines state of play 

28 September 2018 / Laura Hoyano
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The human cost of digital justice

There’s nothing inherently wrong with cost saving but some things simply deserve to be done face-to-face. Mary Cowe examines the impact of video links outside trial  

28 September 2018 / Mary Cowe
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Wisdom from women-of-firsts: ‘justice belongs to the people’

Four formidable legal pioneers talked candidly about their lives and careers to a packed house at Gray’s Inn. Dana Denis-Smith reports  

28 September 2018 / Dana Denis-Smith
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Freeze frame

Digitising documents, yes. Digitising clients, no. The Secret Barrister’s resistance to the video-link revolution is both practical and principled  

28 September 2018 / The Secret Barrister
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Punctuation, hacks and howlers

There are only a few cardinal rules, so read, relax and punctuate with confidence: Dominic Selwood reveals all…  

28 September 2018 / Dominic Selwood
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