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Forewarned, forearmed: Dr Justine Rogers’ insider study of barristers and their pupils found distinct traits and pressures but there are collegiate solutions   

‘Pupillage is like doing a marathon with a box in your hands. And inside the box is a glass vase which you need to keep intact, and you don’t get to open the box until the end of the marathon and for all you know the vase broke on day one!’ 

Guy Fetherstonhaugh QC and Simon O’Toole assess the Pupillage Supervisor Network one year on and offer a view on pupillage regulation  

The Bar may be forgiven for thinking that our regulators positively enjoy tinkering with the rules for pupillage.  

Colin Yeo examines the status of EU citizens in the UK and British citizens in the EU after Brexit 

On 26 June 2017, over a year after the Brexit referendum result, the government finally published its proposals to ‘safeguard the position of EU citizens living in the UK and UK nationals living in the EU’.  

Dominic Selwood (Corax, October 2016)
Paperback 384pp ISBN 978-0992633271  

This is the second in a trilogy of well-researched, historical, religious thrillers featuring heroine Dr Ava Curzon, ex-secret service turned museum curator, a sort of cross between Harry Palmer and Lara Croft 

Counsel talks to pioneers Christine Kings and Edith Robertson about the rise and role of the Legal Practice Management Association  

Twenty-one years ago with a handful of members, the Legal Practice Management Association (LPMA) was established.  

Brexit is likely to do real damage to women who would be disproportionately affected by a bonfire of workers’ rights, warns Aileen McColgan  

EU membership has been extremely significant to the rights of women in the UK, particularly in the area discrimination/equality rights which are the focus of this article.  

A dramatic examination of how the UK went to war with Iraq, and its aftermath, including the tragic death of Dr David Kelly
​Parliament Chamber, Inner Temple, 24 March 2017  

Filing into a quickly packed Parliament Chamber of the Inner Temple on 24 March, I didn’t know what to expect.  

Tom Gash (Penguin, March 2017)
​Paperback 352pp ISBN 978-0241960431  

A key insight into this book is that the author is a former management consultant, who describes himself as challenging received wisdom about crime and punishment, and being sceptical of ‘big ideas’.  

Sir Michael Wood’s time at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office reads like a modern history textbook. Anthony Inglese asks what he’s learned about the art of the lawyer-diplomat and international advocacy  

What makes a good Foreign Secretary?  

Known as the conscience of the legal profession, reforming charity JUSTICE is marking 60 years of shaping the legal landscape. By Andrea Coomber  

In June, JUSTICE celebrated its 60th anniversary.