Features

Dennis Kavanagh considers the Supreme Court’s judgment in Jogee – or the life and death of the doctrine of parasitic liability – and what it means for practitioners, the public and jurisprudence more generally  

At para 11 of the judgment of the Supreme Court in R v Jogee  [2016] UKSC 8, Lord Neuberger reflects that when it comes to joint enterprise criminality, ‘numbers often matter’. 

As well as being a barrister, remember you are an unpaid tax collector, says Tony Reynolds, who advises best financial practice from the start of your legal career  

HMRC has for some years targeted its compliance activity across a range of professions.  

Fiona Jackson introduces the new Bar Council guidance which aims to help chambers better handle claims of sexual harassment  

According to recent research, it seems that incidents of sexual harassment are rarer than when I was first Called (Snapshot: The Experience of Self-Employed Women at the Bar , 2015). 

Dr Liora Lazarus looks at the status and justification of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’s decision on Assange  

The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) decision on Assange was initially met with incredulity from British officials, legal academics and the international press, who called it ‘ridiculous', ‘ludicrous’ and ‘unjustified’.  

Editor: John Gould
Publisher: Jordan Publishing 2015
Hardback: £185 E book: £168
ISBN: 9781846619359 

Lord Justice Briggs addresses the Bar on the implications arising from his civil courts review 

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’