Practice Toolset

Interesting work, challenging times, owning our troubles: the Bar’s stark attitudinal survey results are analysed by David Wurtzel 

How much weight should be attached to the integrity factor in Silk applications? James Hines QC comments on the QCA proposals  

Not for the likes of me? Don’t hold back.  Counsel asks a cohort of atypical barristers to share their thoughts and experiences of going against the Bar grain – and how they made it work  

John Wilson QC reflects on the destruction of the Temple in the Blitz when after the ‘all-clear’ barristers would rifle through the wreckage searching for their briefs and books, their practices as wrecked as their buildings  

Nathalie Lieven QC explains how a COIC pupillage match funded grant is a win-win – for chambers and the justice system – with applications opening in September 2018 

Blind shortlisting – in its infancy at the Bar – is gaining pace in other professions. Occupational Psychologist Bindi Dholakia reports  

CBA Wellbeing Director Sarah Vine is persuaded to share a typical day in the life – in the beleaguered but beloved criminal Bar 

Looking out, looking in: in a interview with Gary Younge,  The Guardian’s editor-at-large, Desiree Artesi explores diversity solutions and the Bar’s parallels with the media sector  

Mark Fell explains how to handle diary clashes ethically while protecting the bottom line. Christopher Convey alerts the Bar to the new money laundering guidance  

With the criminal Bar at crunch point, Sam Roake explores how secondments might affect a publicly funded practice and  Counsel grills barristers on the pros and cons of trying new waters