Features

As the Bar Pro Bono Unit marks its 20th anniversary, Jess Campbell explores the journey of a recent case – an apt reminder of what the Unit was set up to do  

We are now a quarter of the way into 2016, the Bar Pro Bono Unit’s 20th year, and readers will just have finished renewing their practising certificates.  

Criminal barrister Rory Field bids farewell as Bermuda’s Director of Public Prosecutions and reflects on the benefits of taking his London training overseas  

When did you last stop and think about what you really want from your career?  

The legality of drone strikes is riddled with serious questions. The rule of law mandates a post-strike review in every case where a British citizen is executed without trial, writes Emma Fitzsimons 

The ‘Calais refugee judgment’, an update on the Lawyers Refugee Initiative and volunteers report from the ‘Jungle’  

Dr Anton van Dellen and Thomas Crockett turn the spotlight on third six pupillages and open the debate on developing best practice  

Seven years ago, a non-trading individual without a listed business address notoriously set up a website to charge fees to prospective barristers applying for third six pupillages.  

The Commonwealth-in-England Barristers Association is as relevant now as when first set up, write Charlotte Boaitey and Andrew Otchie  

Patricia Scotland QC, Baroness Scotland of Asthal and self-styled ‘child of the Caribbean and of the Commonwealth’, was elected Secretary General Designate of the Commonwealth of Nations in November 2015.  

Barristers’ musical talents can add power to their pro bono whilst improving emotional wellbeing, as Helen Tung explains  

‘Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.’ Victor Hugo 

Mark Hatcher looks at the latest court closure announcement and Labour’s access to justice commission  

Spare a thought for civil servants who are toiling away even harder to make up for headcount reductions in Government departments.  

Catriona Murdoch makes the case for an in-country approach to tackling the illegal migration trade and reports on the challenges faced in Ethiopia  

Since January 2015, 1,084,625 migrants, including asylum seekers, are reported to have arrived in Europe, of which 1,048,268 arrived by sea.  

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