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Author: Peter Jukes
Illustrator: Martin Rowson
Publisher: Canbury 
Press Date: April 2015
ISBN -13: 978-0993040719
Price: £9.99 

Author: Peter Murphy
Publisher: No Exit 
Press Date: April 2015
​ISBN-13: 978–1843444015 Price: £8.99 

Head of Chambers, Bretton Woods Law  

Bretton Woods Law is a leading specialist public international law set of chambers. 

The power of speech is proved again  

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” – L. P. Hartley: The Go-Between 

Mark Hatcher examines the Magna Carta celebrations, The Queen’s Speech and the new Government’s legislative programme  

The political significance of Magna Carta was not lost on the Prime Minister when he addressed representatives of Church, Law and State at Runnymede on the 800th anniversary of the sealing of the charter. 

Debate Mate mentors Danielle Manson and Monica Savic-Jabrow explain how the tool of debate is being used to transform the lives of children  

The power of the public speaker is one with which we’re all too familiar.  

Alice Carse and Kannon Shanmugam consider what can be done to address the growing skills gap between junior and senior lawyers in commercial litigation, on both sides of the Atlantic  

One of the most pressing issues facing the commercial Bar today is the lack of opportunities for junior practitioners to develop the skills needed to lead the types of large, complex cases that dominate modern commercial litigation.  

Henry King and Simon Paul explore how shared cross-examination could expand opportunities for junior trial advocates, with reference to practice in other jurisdictions  

In the course of the discussion at the recent COMBAR North America meeting in Washington DC concerning the expansion of advocacy opportunities for junior counsel – as noted in this issue (see "Mind the gap") – support was expressed for giving junior lawyers discrete issues on which to conduct cross-examination.  

Adrian Jack crunches the numbers on High Court judiciary pay and warns of a looming recruitment catastrophe  

Recruitment to the High Court bench is facing a crisis due to collapsing pay and pension. 

Paul Marshall asks how safe is the common law from the judiciary