Features

After an eventful week in Parliament, Mark Hatcher looks at Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership triumph, the end of New Labour and the legal landscape of all the parties  

Who would have thought that two of the less well known members of the Commons’ Justice Committee in the last Parliament could or would transform politics at Westminster?  

Authors: Daniel Jones, Gregory Stewart, Joel Bennathan QC
Publisher: Bloomsbury Professional
ISBN: 9781780434636
Date: February 2015
​Price: £50.00 

The Harris Review report reveals some harrowing truths about life for young people in prison, as Stephen Cragg QC reports, with comment from Frances Crook  

At the beginning of 2014, I was appointed to the Independent Advisory Panel (IAP) on Deaths in Custody, providing independent advice to the government on deaths in prisons, police stations, immigration detention centres, mental hospitals and anywhere else where the state deprived people of their liberty. 

More needs to be done to safeguard vulnerable witnesses in the family courts, says Gillian Geddes  

Whatever family practitioners do next, I suggest they make it their highest priority to log on to The Advocate’s Gateway and examine the list of excellent Toolkits on the right of the home page. 

David Wurtzel reviews the latest play by renowned playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz which was showing at the Bush Theatre  

The Invisible  was written with the backing and help of the Legal Action Group, the Law Society and publicly funded lawyers.  

The government’s present proposals to replace the Human Rights Act 1998 are seriously flawed, says Dominic Grieve QC MP 

In the first of a new series on personal finance, Paul Faithfull looks at the issues facing first time buyers at the young Bar  

As house prices continue to increase across most parts of the UK, getting a foot on the property ladder is becoming more challenging.  

Mrs Justice Vivien Rose talks to Anthony Inglese about her unusual route to the High Court bench  

In the small talk before going in to meet Her Majesty and being made a Dame Commander of the British Empire, the newly-appointed Mrs Justice Vivien Rose was asked, “Have you had to come far?”  

Steven Powles highlights the possible threats to democracy and the rule of law posed by the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership  

Ever since the general election, much attention has rightly focused on the government’s intention to scrap the Human Rights Act 1998.  

The diversity of the employed Bar  

A popular misconception when considering the employed Bar is assuming that roles are either in a solicitor’s firm or in the Government Legal Service or CPS. Dispelling this myth, Melissa Coutinho continues her series of 60 second interviews which demonstrate the diversity of work that employed lawyers undertake