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Oliver Hanmer reports the findings of the regulator’s review of advocacy standards within youth proceedings, and Parliamentarian and practitioner perspectives on the problems currently endemic in the youth justice system  

In November last year, the Bar Standards Board (BSB) published The Youth Proceedings Advocacy Review which we and CILEx Regulation commissioned from The Institute for Criminal Policy Research.  

As litigation spend shrinks, Andrew Goodman presents the business case for advocacy in mediation and outlines a new market for barristers  

Members of the Bar are increasingly finding themselves needing, or wishing, to represent clients in mediation, acting not as mediators but as advocates and legal advisers.  

In the second part of Counsel’s report on the role of the Circuits today, we hear from Leaders Paul Lewis QC and Richard Atkins QC on what makes the Circuit structure work and how it meets the profession’s needs  

Legal practitioners from different backgrounds share their experiences of the developing regulatory area with Melissa Countinho  

Today there appears to be more regulation than ever before, despite the aims of reducing unnecessary bureaucracy.  

David Wurtzel interviews the incoming Chairman of the Bar, Chantal-Aimée Doerries QC  

The 2016 Chairman of the Bar, Chantal-Aimée Doerries QC, came to the profession slightly by accident.  

Daniel Sternberg reports back from this year’s Young Bar Conference  

Over 150 employed and self-employed barristers and law students gathered on 17 October 2015 for the 11th Young Bar Conference.  

Michael Zander gives his view on the Ministry of Justice’s consultation paper on the Quality of Advocacy 

The 30th Annual Bar Conference, together this year with the Young Bar Conference, took place on 17 October. Counsel reports on the day  

The Leaders report on the form and function of the Circuits today: what makes the Circuit structure work, how it represents individual voices and how it meets the profession’s needs  

Dianne Martin and Dr Kate Harrington recount their respective experiences of setting up, and undertaking, one of the Bar’s first part-time pupillages and consider its wider applicability