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Judges’ views on special measures

What works in practice? Dr Tina Pereira and Professor Lucy Henry sought answers from family and criminal judges across the country... 

12 December 2024 / Dr Tina Pereira / Professor Lucy Henry
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Breaking the cycle of reoffending – ISC pilot

Are Birmingham’s Intensive Supervision Courts successfully turning women offenders’ lives around? Chloe Ashley talks to District Judge Michelle Smith 

12 December 2024 / Chloe Ashley
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Unlocking potential: Lawyers Who Care

Lawyers Who Care is the world’s first ever legal mentoring organisation for care-experienced people. Co-founders Lucy Barnes and Kate Aubrey-Johnson introduce this bold new social mobility initiative 

12 December 2024 / Lucy Barnes / Kate Aubrey-Johnson

BSB update on the Equality Rules consultation

Mark Neale, Director General of the Bar Standards Board, offers an update on the Equality Rules consultation

20 November 2024 / Mark Neale
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Should the BSB impose a positive duty to promote diversity?

Imposing a professional obligation to act in a way that advances equality, diversity and inclusion is the wrong way to achieve this ambition, says Nick Vineall KC 

11 November 2024 / Nick Vineall KC
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The rule of law misconstrued?

The desire to enlarge the scope of the rule of law is understandable but where is the line to be drawn? asks Raymond Wacks 

11 November 2024 / Raymond Wacks
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Social workers not trained in CCB

An alarming gap in social workers’ knowledge of coercive and controlling behaviour compromises the safety and wellbeing of vulnerable individuals, say Joy Brereton KC and Lucy Logan Green 

11 November 2024 / Joy Brereton KC / Lucy Logan Green
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Planning reforms under Labour

Tom Cosgrove KC looks at the government’s radical planning reform and the opportunities and challenges ahead for practitioners 

11 November 2024 / Tom Cosgrove KC
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Free speech in universities

From no-platforming to mass protests – where does the law sit on what is happening in our universities? Azeem Suterwalla reports 

11 November 2024 / Azeem Suterwalla

The economic case for free legal advice

For every £1 spent on free specialist legal advice, there’s an estimated saving to the public purse of £2.71. Rhiannon Du Cann reports on research showing the positive domino effect of funding the free legal advice sector  

07 November 2024 / Rhiannon Du Cann
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