The lockdown law

Eight ways to reinforce and revise the coronavirus restrictions regulations. By Tom Hickman QC  

20 May 2020 / Tom Hickman KC

20 texts for lawyers to read/watch/listen to in lockdown

David Langwallner  tends to your literary health: a personal prescription, with some aphoristic and aesthetic comment 

19 May 2020 / David Langwallner

OPINION Juries in isolation

However temporary the new measures are intended to be, there is always a risk that they could become permanent - Sailesh Mehta  and Mahesh Karu  on the resumption of jury trials, but not as we know them  

19 May 2020 / Sailesh Mehta / Mahesh Karu

Pupillage: a view during Covid-19

It's been a wildly different transition to second six than anticipated:  Lachlan Stewart  explains what it's like to be a pupil 'on their feet' during the pandemic

14 May 2020 / Lachlan Stewart

A patent problem in the global antiviral race?

Foreign patents could prevent UK citizens accessing treatment for COVID-19, warns Professor Mark Engelman  

14 May 2020 / Mark Engelman

Opinion: COVID-19's disproportionate toll

Is it really  true that COVID-19 is the virus that does not discriminate? Glenn Parsons  investigates  

14 May 2020 / Glenn Parsons

Trial by ordeal? Not necessarily

From the first entirely remote hearing of lockdown to present day, the Bar has rapidly acclimatised to conducting trials by video. Michael Mylonas QC  introduces one chambers’ verdict on what’s worked, what hasn’t and what it might all mean for future practice

Finding a way to serve

With mini pupillages and other work experience cancelled, Zeenat Islam  explains how Learning for Lawyers – REDEFINED is helping to unlock the law for those struggling to access opportunities

06 May 2020 / Zeenat Islam

Protecting our young – ensuring our future

Young barristers want to be in court but they do not want this at the expense of their health or the expense of their clients, writes Katherine Duncan 

06 May 2020 / Katherine Duncan

Opinion: Judge-alone trials can deliver justice – but only if defendants choose them

Judge-alone trials should not be immediately discarded as inevitably inimical to the interests of justice and have been operating uncontroversially in Canada as an expansion of defence rights for many decades, writes Laura Hoyano 
 

05 May 2020 / Laura Hoyano
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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

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