Features

As the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London is marked by a new opera, His Honour Judge Cryan relates the pivotal role played by the Inn’s first Royal Bencher in saving the Temple Church and Hall from devastation  

In the early hours of Sunday 2 September 1666, a fire broke out in Pudding Lane in the east of the City of London, near London Bridge.  

To stay or to go has its courtroom equivalent  

‘It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.’ – Thomas Sowell 

The 2017 Bar Council leadership team, Andrew Langdon QC and Andrew Walker QC, share their most influential reads  

Andrew Langdon QC, Vice Chairman of the Bar Council 

Litigators beware – open conduct in litigation could change the effect of a Part 36 offer, warns Alan Tunkel  

Can an offer made under Part 36 of the Civil Procedure Rules be impliedly withdrawn or impliedly changed to become less advantageous to the offeree? 

Recent news analysis of the Panama Papers, and high-profile-personality stakes in offshore funds, have turned up the heat in the tax avoid v evade debate. Kevin Prosser QC sheds light on this greyest of areas  

Tax avoidance and tax evasion are currently subjects of enormous public interest, on which journalists and politicians have a great deal to say.  

Tahir Elçi, President of the Diyarbakir Bar Association, was fatally shot during a press conference in 2015. Rupert Wheeler and Tony Fisher honour his work and report on the struggle for human rights in Turkey  

On 22 March 2016, the Bar Human Rights Committee (BHRC) joined with the Law Society Human Rights Committee (LSHRC) to host an evening commemorating the life of Tahir Elçi, a prominent Turkish lawyer and human rights defender, who was fatally shot during a press conference last November in Diyarbakir, South Eastern Turkey.  

Head of Mondial Chambers  

The chambers will specialise in domestic, commercial and international law with a core base in London, consisting of leading QCs and other senior counsel from other jurisdictions.  

Counsel interviews criminal barrister Matthew Scott, aka the award-winning Barristerblogger  

Khawar Qureshi QC provides an overview of recent trends and issues relating to the arbitral process  

Arbitration as a means of dispute resolution has been utilised for more than a thousand years, and is not a new development.  

Perplexed over financial matters? The Young Bar Toolkit is here to help turn confusion to clarity, as the Young Barristers’ Committee explains in this two-part finance guide for the self-employed Bar  

In the early years of practice, barristers are on a steep learning curve in all respects.