Life at the criminal Bar or the product of an irresistible creative impulse?
By Ben Mills
A barrister’s experience of volunteering in a London hospital during the pandemic
By Stephen Page
Classics and the law: coming full circle, Sir Rupert Jackson shares his cultural life and times
Coping with prohibition through methodological mixology, Shantanu Majumdar QC reprises his social media cocktail recipe hits for a home-based NYE
Exclusive: the double BAFTA-winning author reveals who inspired the justice crusader Judge John Deed, where Deed would stand on the separation of powers, and why Law and Order couldn’t be made today
Interview by David Etherington QC
It may be a very different Christmas this year, but the perennial questions remain – ‘What should I drink on Christmas Day?’ and ‘What’s the perfect gift for an oenophile?’
By Professor Dominic Regan and Seán Jones QC
Robin Griffith-Jones marks the centenary of the events leading to the burial of the Unknown Warrior
A barrister, a comedian and a deputy lieutenant log onto a Zoom call... how Bradford found a way to keep laughing through lockdown. By Lydia Pearce
A sobering insight into past legal and social cultures where the rule of law is jettisoned. By David Langwallner
We can learn a lot about the profession from lawyers in film and it can engender in students a love of the law: a new series of cinema critiques by David Langwallner
Guernsey / Remote (with occasional travel)
Help Shape the Future of Children's Law
Update from the Chair of the Bar
Save the Children UK is the latest charity to benefit from a £500 donation from AlphaBiolabs via the company’s Giving Back initiative
AlphaBiolabs has been awarded the contract to provide drug, alcohol, and DNA testing services for Hull City Council, following a rigorous competitive tender process
By Clement Cowley, Partner at The Penny Group
Modernising communication and collaboration at a leading Chancery set. A Zexi case study
How to build profile without compromising professional duties. By Naumaan Farooq, Co-Founder of Inked PR
A decade of reviews and research has disrupted accepted thinking in the search for causality. Suicides following abuse have overtaken domestic homicides. Is the law keeping up? Professor Susan Edwards KC (Hon) examines recent cases and the obstacles to successful prosecution
At least not that way, says Richard Paige
Heritage as an anchor and a compass, finding our common humanity and embracing the power of the outsider Melina Antoniadis’s lessons learnt
Seeing the full picture Baljit Ubhey OBE outlines the CPS action plan to tackle violence against women and girls, offering insights directly relevant to courtroom practice
Lauren Fullerton examines the how, what and why of setting up a second chambers base