January 2018

In this issue

Bar Chair slams ‘unacceptably poor’ Home Office detention decision-making

MyBar: self-service

Public trust judges

Legal aid access widened

Hale backs divorce reform

Appeal judge warning over smartphone use

Review discount rate

In-house pro bono

Lord Chief calls for greater ‘sensitivity’ on mental health

Court challenge over fees

Financial Remedies Court

Lowered burden

Judges get helping hand from courtroom science primers

Regulator ditches QASA

New BSB chair

Forensic scandal

Being LGBT+ at the Bar

Advocate for an engaged profession

Zero tolerance

#MeToo & due process

LPP to have and have not

EU Withdrawal Bill and judicial review: are we ready?

Film review: Paddington 2: life in the hostile environment

Book review: ‘Madam, Where Are Your Mangoes?’ An Episodic Memoir

Book review: In Search of Nice Americans: off-grid, on the road and state to state in Trump’s America

Secret E-Diary

Managing our own destiny