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Trauma risk

Legal professionals face potentially traumatic events every day. This year’s Wellness Forum on 21 June turns to the military, police, medical services and CPS to learn how we can better manage the risks we face at the Bar 

 

30 May 2019 / Rachel Spearing

Online harm & a risky duty of care

Social media regulation, free speech and the rule of law: democratic legislatures are scrambling to regulate and the government’s white paper on online harm needs careful scrutiny 

 

30 May 2019 / Zoe McCallum

LASPO Review and the Family Court

Worth the wait or too little too late? The review is frank, wide-ranging and lengthy but the action plan 
has little to offer family justice, law and practice
 

30 May 2019 / Lucy Reed KC

Justice first fellow

An unconventional yet holistic route to the Bar for the Justice First Fellow at the Public Law Project and a meaningful use of law 

30 May 2019 / Ollie Persey

Not getting silk – yet

If at first you don’t succeed... but don’t be tempted to reheat last year’s application. A rallying account from a third-time-lucky silk 

30 May 2019 / Philip Shepherd KC

Legal aid funding at inquests

Making sure inquests remain inquisitorial: a quid pro quo? Calls to extend non-means tested legal aid for families in inquests where the state is legally represented were rejected by government for reasons of cost – but also effect 

30 May 2019 / Matthew Hill
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Brexit and the constitution: seven lessons

We’re having a constitutional moment – the Brexit process has exposed a fairly dysfunctional relationship between law and politics in Westminster. Some lessons learned. 

23 May 2019 / Dr Jack Simson Caird

Brexit and the politics of law-making

Should MPs be able to legislate contrary to the wishes of the government of the day? The Cooper Bill has raised fundamental questions over the relationship between law and politics in the United Kingdom 

18 April 2019 / Dr Jack Simson Caird

Some citizens are more equal than others

Citizenship-stripping: principled, random or opportunistic? The fall of ISIS and potential return to the UK of British citizens who left to fight under its banner confronts ministers with difficult and divisive issues 

18 April 2019 / Colin Yeo

Draft Domestic Abuse Bill: Progress or pitfall?

The draft Domestic Abuse Bill is dividing opinion. Initially hailed as a step-change, why is it now generating significant backlash? asks Christina Warner 

18 April 2019 / Christina Warner
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Looking back and moving on

Chair of the Bar Sam Townend KC highlights some of the key achievements at the Bar Council this year

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