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Recent cases have highlighted perceived problems caused by the largely unfettered availability of calls on standby letters of credit or performance bonds in circumstances where the underlying parties are already embroiled in some form of relevant dispute resolution procedure. In this article, Andrew Ayres QC questions the reluctance of the courts to interfere with the cashflow dynamics between the parties to a standby.  

An update from the Pro Bono Unit on its fundraising initiatives and cases requiring counsel across Circuits  

Another nice mess the PM has gotten Westminster into: Mark Hatcher examines the intense programme designed to deliver Brexit and other Bills of note to the Bar  

The foolish re-introduction of an already silly idea  

Like a film noire ... I remembered strange wraith-like creatures, resembling my colleagues, entering a Crown court robing room at 4.30pm announcing they were there to start ‘the evening shift’ – Shareca Cole,Carpel Tunnel 

Melissa Coutinho explores the impact of AI on legal practice 

Counsel’s wine critics Seán Jones QC and Dominic Regan with their pick of the summer season 

Antony Lentin 

Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2016) 

Hardback 205pp 978-1-4438-9780-8 

by Nina Raine at the National Theatre 

Co-production with Out of Joint (28 March to 17 May 2017) 

Tate Britain until 1 October 2017 

BBC Studios, directed by Fergus O’Brien