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The ethics of remote hearings in the criminal and family courts

Reasons to pause and consider your ethical obligations. By Christopher Convey Martha Gray  and Hari Kaur  of the Bar Council Ethics Committee  

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A new role for private prosecutions in the wake of Covid-19?

evin Dent QC  and Jeremy Asher  argue that private prosecutions could fill what will otherwise add up to a significant deficit in justice 

20 May 2020 / Kevin Dent KC / Jeremy Asher
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Habeas corpus, the TCI and Covid-19

How are smaller jurisdictions coping with the challenges thrown up by the coronavirus? im Prudhoe  describes how a chance jailhouse referral in the Turks and Caicos Islands led to a ‘remote’ pro bono defence of Sri Lankan detainees caught in the chaos 


20 May 2020 / Tim Prudhoe
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The lockdown law

Eight ways to reinforce and revise the coronavirus restrictions regulations. By Tom Hickman QC  

20 May 2020 / Tom Hickman KC
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OPINION Juries in isolation

However temporary the new measures are intended to be, there is always a risk that they could become permanent - Sailesh Mehta  and Mahesh Karu  on the resumption of jury trials, but not as we know them  

19 May 2020 / Sailesh Mehta / Mahesh Karu
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20 texts for lawyers to read/watch/listen to in lockdown

David Langwallner  tends to your literary health: a personal prescription, with some aphoristic and aesthetic comment 

19 May 2020 / David Langwallner
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Book review: Talking Law, a Women in the Law UK Book

By Sally Penni 

Independently published (March 2020), ISBN 979-8603267661, Paperback (295 pages) 

Reviewed by David Wurtzel  

19 May 2020 / David Wurtzel
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Pupillage: a view during Covid-19

It's been a wildly different transition to second six than anticipated:  Lachlan Stewart  explains what it's like to be a pupil 'on their feet' during the pandemic

14 May 2020 / Lachlan Stewart
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A patent problem in the global antiviral race?

Foreign patents could prevent UK citizens accessing treatment for COVID-19, warns Professor Mark Engelman  

14 May 2020 / Mark Engelman
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Opinion: COVID-19's disproportionate toll

Is it really  true that COVID-19 is the virus that does not discriminate? Glenn Parsons  investigates  

14 May 2020 / Glenn Parsons
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