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Senior Clerk at Three New Square and Chairman of the Institute of Barristers’ Clerks  

Three New Square specialises in intellectual property law, in particular patent litigation, copyright, registered designs, trade marks, passing off, misuse of confidential information and litigation involving scientifically complex issues. 

Optimise performance and manage stress – John Hunter outlines the benefits of the Alexander Technique to the Bar  

The long association between F M Alexander (1869-1955) and the theatre dates back to the very origins of the Alexander Technique (AT).  

Introducing the Counsel Editorial Board, which shares some alternative reads  

Evanna Fruithof, Alexandria Carr and Gordon Nardell QC set out possible models for the UK’s relationship with the EU post-Brexit  

Following the vote to leave on 23 June, the EU awaits formal notification by Her Majesty’s government of the UK’s intention to withdraw from the world’s largest trading bloc, a notification required by the terms of Art 50 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU).  

In the second of this two-part finance guide for the self-employed Bar, the Young Barristers’ Committee looks at payment term  

Part 1 of this finance guide discussed payment terms, working with your clerks, and the steps you should take to ensure that your work is correctly billed (Counsel, July 2016, p 20).  

You too can create a pearl of an international practice – as the world limbers up for Rio 2016, Frederico Singarajah explains how he forged links with the Brazilian jurisdiction  

As Brazil prepares to open the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, Counsel  magazine has asked me to share my experience of building an international practice at the Bar.  

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?