Gordon recently retired as Circuit Judge at Reading and Oxford Crown Courts (Resident Judge/Honorary Recorder of Oxford). He was previously Solicitor, Army Legal Officer (latterly Director, Army Legal Services and the Prosecuting Authority for the Army).
HH Gordon Risius explains how hearing loss – never a good career move for a judge – didn’t have to mean the sudden end of his time on the Bench.
Last June’s issue of Counsel contained a helpful article by Sukhveer Kandola and Narita Bahra about court users with hearing difficulties, in which they drew attention to facilities which can help access justice (June 2014, p30).
The new Bar Council earnings report presents a collective challenge for the self-employed Bar, remote hearings are changing and Bar Conference is back next month
Launch of the Institute of Neurotechnology and Law
Paul Magrath of ICLR recalls the chequered history of law reporting prior to the 1865 establishment of a Council of Law Reporting
Louise Crush explores the value you can measure in monetary terms alongside the many non-tangible benefits to working with a financial adviser
Giovanni D’Avola explores the issue of over-citation of unreported cases and the ‘added value’ elements of a law report
Louise Crush explores the key points and opportunities for tax efficiency
Most of us like to think we would risk our career in order to meet our ethical obligations, so why have so many lawyers failed to hold the line? asks Flora Page
If your current practice environment is bringing you down, seek a new one. However daunting the change, it will be worth it, says Anon Barrister
Creating advocacy opportunities for juniors is now the expectation but not always easy to put into effect. Tom Mitcheson KC distils developing best practice from the Patents Court initiative already bearing fruit
National courts are now running the bulk of the world’s war crimes cases and corporate prosecutions are part of this growing trend, reports Chris Stephen
Let’s hear it for the assessors, says Dame Anne Rafferty of the KC Selection Panel. And to make silk assessors’ lives a little easier when applicants come calling in May, Dame Anne fields some commonly asked questions
