Features

Cyber Crime Law and Practice  

Matthew Richardson 

Wildy 

March 2014 

ISBN: 0854901361 

£95 

Detection and Preservation of Assets in Financial Remedy Claims  

Nigel Dyer QC and Juliet Chapman 

Butterworths Law 

April 2014 

ISBN-13/ISSN: 9781405774048 

£110 

David Wurtzel reviews this year’s Kalisher event, a production of Witness for the Prosecution in Middle Temple Hall in May.  

There can be few better causes than the Kalisher Trust, founded in 1996 for the purpose of helping talented students and young barristers with limited means who want to practice in criminal law. 

Andrew Clarke QC reviews the Bar Choral Society’s inaugural concert.  

On 23 June, the Bar Choral Society (BSC) gave its inaugural concert in Temple Church. It is idle to speculate as to why it has taken the Bar so long to have a choir of its own. 

Of politics, schoolmasters and judges: Paul Marshall reflects upon the recent Court of Appeal decision in Denton v T H White and the fallout from the decision in Mitchell v News Group.  

If one settling a pillow by her head,  Should say, “That is not what I meant at all  That is not it, at all”  

T S Eliot, Prufrock 

The Independent Parliamentarians’ Inquiry into the Operation and Effectiveness of the Youth Court reported in June. Lord Carlile, who chaired the inquiry, explains its findings to Counsel.  

June 2014 saw the publication of a far reaching All Party Parliamentarians’ report on Youth Justice. 

Nathalie Lieven QC explains the Council of the Inns of Court’s first six funding scheme.  

As readers will know this is a very hard time for chambers that rely on publicly funded work, particularly those doing crime. One of the worst consequences of the extreme financial pressure that many chambers find themselves under has been a dramatic fall in the number of pupillages available, again particularly in criminal sets reliant on public funding. Although the reduction in pupillages is wholly understandable, it makes even worse the disparity between the number of people who complete their academic training but are unable to get a pupillage, and must place in jeopardy the future of the criminal Bar. 

The diversity of the employed Bar.  

A popular misconception when considering the employed Bar is assuming that roles are either in a solicitor’s firm or in the Government Legal Service or CPS. To dispel this myth, Melissa Coutinho begins a series of 60 second interviews which demonstrate the diversity of work that employed lawyers undertake. 

Lance Ashworth QC examines the unappreciated effects of legal aid cuts and how the Bar can help.  

More than a year after the significant cuts to civil legal aid introduced by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, the Ministry of Justice has published statistics showing that spending on legal aid fell £150 million to £800 million in 2013-2014, the lowest level since 2007. 

Lord Judge gives his own view on the European Court of Human Rights.  

This response to the recent article in Counsel by my respected friend Dean Spielmann, President of the European Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg, addressing what he identified as the two main criticisms of the Court, is entirely personal.