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Not everything creepy happens at night...  

“Never make predictions, especially about the future” – Casey Stengel 

General editor: Pier Von berg
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781849465373
Date: September 2014
Price: £65.00 

Philip Forsang Ndikum describes how his training at the Bar of England and Wales equipped him for the challenges of practising law in Cameroon  

Africa in miniature 

Barrister, 9 Gough Square  

9 Gough Square is a leading common law set of barristers’ chambers based in London 

Neelam Sarkaria and Gerry Campbell argue that local authorities should be more proactive in bringing applications for FGM Protection Orders to combat the “great evil” of FGM  

“Given what we now know is the distressingly great prevalence of FGM in this country even today, some 30 years after FGM was first criminalised, it is sobering to reflect that this is not merely the first care case where FGM has featured but also, I suspect, if not the first one of only a handful of FGM cases that have yet found their way to the family courts…” (Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division 2015) 

Nkumbe Ekaney QC and Charlotte Proudman outline the key legislative changes on FGM introduced by the Serious Crime Act  

Female genital mutilation (FGM) now forms part of our political and public consciousness.  

David Wurtzel reviews the latest play by renowned playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz, which puts LASPO into dramatic form   

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

The rule of law is seen by Michael Gove as “the most precious asset” of any civilised society. Mark Hatcher reports on the new Lord Chancellor’s first weeks in office  

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne’s Budget Statement was the last big set piece parliamentary event at Westminster before the start of the Summer Recess.  

Andrew Granville Stafford considers the attractions, the pitfalls and the mechanics of public access work  

Among my first public access clients were an African prince, a 70s prog rock star and the former managing clerk of a large solicitor’s firm whose preferred method of payment was an envelope containing £50 notes.  

Simon Sugar explains how, post-LASPO, one of the challenges for the Bar is how to devise a cost-effective structure for the provision of public access services to meet the increasing demand from both “public” and “commercial” litigants-in-person  

“Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie” - All’s Well That Ends Well