Features

Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Arnold v Britton, are the courts returning to a more traditional approach to the construction of contracts, asks Benjamin Pilling QC  

At the heart of many commercial cases is a written agreement.  

Michael Jones outlines the highlights of The Advocate’s Gateway International Conference on addressing vulnerability in the justice system  

As a family practitioner all too familiar with the issues and obstacles involved with vulnerable witnesses, particularly children, I was anticipating taking a great deal away from the Advocacy Training Council (ATC) and The Advocate’s Gateway International Conference.  

Life is often tough at the top  

“When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.”– Ronald Reagan 

Are you ready to become a judge? In the first of a series in which Counsel explores how to join the judiciary, HHJ Usha Karu outlines her own tribunals route and offers an insight into the application and selection processes  

When barristers consider applying for judicial appointment they frequently have only one role in mind – Recorder.  

Mark Hill QC reports on the mock trial of the Barons who negotiated the sealing of Magna Carta  

For centuries, courts were held in the splendour of Westminster Hall, adjudicating upon mundane disputes, as well as major trials, such as those of Thomas More, Guy Fawkes and Charles I.  

Head of Exchange Chambers  

Exchange Chambers is an award-winning and multi-disciplinary set of chambers based in Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds. 

This year the Bar welcomed its first pupils under the Inns of Court’s Pupillage Matched Funding Scheme. Nathalie Lieven QC reports  

The Pupillage Matched Funding Scheme was set up in 2013 and has been very successful in helping numbers of students to qualify as barristers.  

The HELP Programme (the European Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals) supports the Council of Europe member states in implementing the European Convention on Human Rights at the national level.Simon O’Toole explains  

Over the past 20 years the international community has become aware of the deficiencies and gaps in political governance in states, the increasing power of transnational businesses, and the potential of businesses to affect negatively the rights of individuals. 

In the first of her quarterly columns for Counsel, the new Chief Executive of the Bar Pro Bono Unit, Jess Campbell, introduces herself 

The real picture: Sam Mercer explains what the Bar Council’s recent Snapshot research reveals about the experience of women at the Bar today and its recommendations for supporting long-term careers  

You may have seen some of the rather sensationalist headlines that greeted publication of the Bar Council’s new gender report Snapshot: The Experience of Women at the Self-Employed Bar  in July (The Independent : “Female barristers subjected to shocking levels of rampant sexism, says Bar report”, Law Gazette : “Sexism still rampant in the ‘children’s playground’ of the Bar”).