Events have continued to move at great speed. I indicated during the course of last week that we would keep them under review. As the Prime Minister has been telling…
Responding to the immediate impact COVID-19 has been an ever-evolving task. The priority of the Young Barristers’ Committee (YBC) has been the safety of young barristers and pupils as they…
As a self-employed Barrister, you will have concerns regarding the impact of Coronavirus on your practice and what this means for cash flow, tax and VAT payments. Below is a…
The UK legal profession is a bastion of tradition, with centuries of history framing the way law is practiced and how the sector presents itself. However, tradition is increasingly…
In this article, Andrew Thornton, a barrister at Erskine Chambers and a director of FromCounsel.com, Sparqa Legal and Juriosity.com considers some of the ways in which technology may change how…
For a long time, mediation, or as it is often known, alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”), has been the Cinderella of civil litigation. Its merits and value have been overlooked for…
Modernising our regulatory decision-making In October 2019, we published a new edition of the BSB Handbook which modernised our regulatory decision-making by introducing new Enforcement Decision Regulations. The changes reflect a new…
Dear Members of the Bar, I want to thank everyone who is helping to address the very serious concerns that barristers are expressing about running the justice system effectively at…
“In short, the technology and science is so disputed, that there is insufficient consensus in the scientific community regarding the admissibility of these LRs.” [1] “The concluding lesson from the…
On 19 July 2019, The Private Prosecutors’ Association (“PPA”) launched its first edition of the Code for Private Prosecutors (“the Code”). Its intention was to set out standards of…
The first national survey of public opinion on the use of facial recognition technology reveals the majority of people in the UK want companies, the government, and public bodies to limit…
At the end of October 2019, the President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane published guidance (first published in draft in May 2019) into reporting from the family courts[1].…
