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Junior Bar: fight or flight?

Under pressure: facing the facts on today’s junior Bar, practitioners discuss problem-solutions with Dan Hayes  

29 June 2018 / Dan Hayes
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LegalTech and the go-to Junior Bar

Barrister-slash-system designer? It’s high time the Junior Bar got to grips with the impact of technology on their practices – and on the legal system, argues Rick Hoyle  

29 June 2018 / Rick Hoyle
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Salves for the Junior Bar

As funding, wellbeing and retention crises hit the publicly funded Bar where it hurts, Frances Judd QC and Stephen Knight are candid on pain points and turn arounds  

29 June 2018 / Stephen Knight / Frances Judd KC
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Raising the Young Bar profile

Junior barristers, now more than ever, face a world which looks increasingly uncertain. Rick Hoyle, Chair of the Young Barristers’ Committee, looks at the worrying trend and what ...
23 January 2018 / Rick Hoyle
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PUPILLAGE SPECIAL: Two-way street

Upsides and flipsides: supervisors and pupils from the self-employed and employed Bar give warts-and-all accounts of their experiences of a year under very different wings  

  

25 July 2017
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PUPILLAGE SPECIAL: It’s a match

Record numbers of chambers are applying to the COIC Pupillage Matched Funding Scheme, now hitting its stride. Nathalie Lieven QC reports   2016/ 2017 saw 40 pupillages supported ...
25 July 2017 / Mrs Justice Lieven
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PUPILLAGE SPECIAL: The psychology of pupils

Forewarned, forearmed: Dr Justine Rogers’ insider study of barristers and their pupils found distinct traits and pressures but there are collegiate solutions    ‘Pupillage is like ...
25 July 2017 / Dr Justine Rogers
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PUPILLAGE SPECIAL: Who supervises the supervisors?

Guy Fetherstonhaugh QC and Simon O’Toole assess the Pupillage Supervisor Network one year on and offer a view on pupillage regulation   The Bar may be forgiven for thinking that ...
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Whip-lash away?

As the general election pauses the planned whiplash reforms, Robert Weir QC examines the winners and losers, implications for personal injury litigation and disproportionate impact ...
30 May 2017 / Robert Weir KC
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BPTC: vote now

Don’t let consultation fatigue saddle generations of future Bar students with more of the status quo: a hugely expensive course with low prospects of acquiring pupillage at the ...
20 December 2016 / Guy Fetherstonhaugh KC
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