The courageous advocate
David Wurtzel reviews Taken at Midnight by Mark Hayhurst, a Chichester Festival Production at the Theatre Royal Haymarket
The Final Charge
By Dawood Ali McCallum
Health dominates the General Election
“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.” – Gore Vidal
Cuts to the budget are having strange effects.
When I started as a young pupil I had a kind pupil master who, on days when he was out, used to send me to court with other members of Chambers.
Andrei Szerard on his decision to leave London life for the fields of deepest Devon.
It’s now difficult to remember when the idea of leaving the Bar properly crystallised.
David Wurtzel reviews the January production in Temple Church of T S Eliot’s work.
2015 is Magna Carta year with its theme of conflict between the king, the law and the Church.
Court & Bowled
Tales of Cricket and the Law
Author: James Wilson
Published by Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing £19.99
ISBN: 9780854901401
Magna Carta Uncovered
Authors: Anthony Arlidge and Igor Judge
Hart Publishing £25
ISBN: 9781849465564
Nigel Pascoe QC reviews The Scottsboro Boys at the Garrick Theatre.
In March 1931, at Paint Rock, Alabama, nine black teenagers were taken off a freight train which had been running in Tennessee...
Easter Rising 1916: The Trials
by Seán Enright
Merrion Press £18.99 ISBN-13: 978-1908928375
England and Wales
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The Chair of the Bar reports back
By Kem Kemal, CEO, Henry Dannell
By BSK Financial Planning
Mário Barroso, Head of R&D and Method Development at AlphaBiolabs
Susie Griffin on the admin that keeps barristers from billable work
Clement Cowley, Partner at The Penny Group, explains how global events can influence the performance of pensions and ISAs, and why taking a long-term approach to investing is often the most effective strategy
Kick off your career at the Bar Council’s Pupillage Fair this October it’s one of the most valuable opportunities for aspiring barristers, says Amelia Clegg
Join us on Saturday 21 November 2026 at Leeds Beckett University and see for yourself why the North continues to be an exceptional place to build a career at the Bar
The golden age of advocacy? David Langwallner pays homage to the filmic if contentious barrister Sir Edward Carson and some of his contemporaries
Henry Fingerhut outlines what the Bar Standards Board AI guidance means for early career barristers
Not yet, says Jacob Turner. Regulation, unlike the technology itself, is a domain the legal profession can still control