Legal Personality

It’s been five years since the groundbreaking QC competition in which six Black women barristers, including the 2025 Chair of the Bar, took silk. Yet today, the number of Black KCs remains ‘critically low’. Desirée Artesi talks to Baroness Scotland KC, Allison Munroe KC and Melanie Simpson KC about the critical success factors, barriers and ideas for embedding change

In the final part of a series celebrating the Bar Pro Bono Award winners, Ramby de Mello and Doughty Street Chambers share the stories behind their awards

Called back to her original vocation, Emma Dixon is now a non-religious healthcare chaplain at Royal Cornwall Hospital. Here are her lessons learnt

Why we do pro bono – in the second part of a series celebrating the 2025 Bar Pro Bono Award winners, Jesse Crozier and Siobhan Samuel share the stories behind their awards

Belonging at the Bar, even if the buildings indicate otherwise – Daniel Holt shares his lessons learnt accessing this ‘beautiful, traditional but often exclusionary’ profession

Through small but meaningful efforts, we can restore the sense of collegiality that has been so sorely eroded, says Baldip Singh 

In the first part of a series celebrating the 2025 Bar Pro Bono Award winners, Advocate introduces Iona Gallagher, Edward Fitzgerald KC, Adam Wagner KC and Da’aro Youth Project 

Timothy James Dutton CBE KC was known across the profession as an outstanding advocate, a dedicated public servant and a man of the utmost integrity. He was also a loyal and loving friend to many of us 

Professional Discipline Silk of the Year, former Vice Chair of the Bar Standards Board and barrister member of the ethics taskforce scrutinising the role of law firms in enabling kleptocracy talks to Anthony Inglese CB 

Nicholas Khan KC, the only lawyer to have taken silk while working in a European Union institution, discusses his fascinating professional life beyond the Inns of Court – in the Legal Service of the European Commission