‘The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has admitted it is struggling to keep pace with a rising volume of incoming reports, authorisations and disciplinary cases.’
Legal Futures, 19th March 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘In Episode 138 Emma-Louise Fenelon speaks to Marina Wheeler QC about the burgeoning field of mediation, and outlines a number of useful tips for practitioners drawing from her own experience as a mediator.’
Law Pod UK, 17th March 2021
Source: audioboom.com
‘Almost a quarter of pupil barristers (23%) say they are experiencing “some financial hardship” during the pandemic, a survey by the Bar Council has found.’
Legal Futures, 18th March 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘During the live television coverage of the Supreme Court hearings in Miller (No 1), some commentators (and no doubt many members of the public) noted that almost all lawyers in the courtroom were male. That image of the UK’s “Supreme Court bar” (to borrow a US term), though not entirely accurate, highlighted an ongoing problem with gender representation. In a new study (available here), I analysed the trends of gender and seniority in counsel appearances before the House of Lords and the Supreme Court from 1970 to 2020 based on a unique dataset I created covering 5,041 lawyers and 2,714 judgments. I found that there are some very optimistic signs regarding appearances of the most junior counsel. However, gender balance among the more senior counsel is not as good and has not been clearly improving over the most recent years, which matters because counsel with more experience before the highest court dominate litigation in that court. The unprecedented representation of women among the most junior counsel in the Supreme Court gives nevertheless a reason to believe that the situation will improve also among the more senior counsel.’
UK Constitutional Law Association , 15th March 2021
Source: ukconstitutionallaw.org
‘Covid-19, coupled with the savage cuts in legal aid, have greatly added to the vicarious trauma suffered by social justice lawyers and other law workers from being immersed in clients’ day-to-day problems, the authors of a new book have argued.’
Legal futures, 15th March 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Football club Newcastle United has failed in its bid to remove a top QC from being an arbitrator in a dispute it is having with the Premier League (PL).’
Litigation Futures, 10th March 2021
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘The former Consul General for Wales has struck out on his own as a sole practitioner and embraced direct access, saying it is “bordering on Luddite” for barristers to ignore it.’
Legal Futures, 11th March 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘In his blog for the Human Rights Hub, Edwin Cameron criticised Ms Dinah Rose QC, the President of Magdalen, for accepting the brief, in the Privy Council, to defend the Cayman Islands government’s law against same-sex marriage. Having long been one of my few judicial heroes, it is not easy for me to disagree with Edwin. However, on this point he is, with the greatest of respect, wrong.’
Oxford Human Rights Hub, 7th March 2021
Source: ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk
‘When the cab rank rule is no longer a defence: Matthew Happold on considerations when accepting instructions overseas.’
3 Hare Court, 26th February 2021
Source: www.3harecourt.com
‘Two barristers working on a damages-based agreement have failed in their court bid to recoup almost £7m in legal fees.’
Law Society's Gazette, 5th March 2021
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘People from Muslim backgrounds have become targets during the pandemic due to the “rabbit holes” of online conspiracies, campaigners have said as a barrister spoke out about a hate crime.’
Daily Telegraph, 2nd March 2021
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The chair of the Bar Council has dismissed as nonsense the suggestion that it had to publicly support the barrister at the centre of a racism row over his comments on Twitter.’
Legal Futures, 3rd March 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A pupil barrister and animal protection activist has created what is thought to be the first vegan barrister’s wig, made from hemp rather than horse hair.’
Legal Futures, 1st March 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
“The “power of the purse”, coming not from solicitors but from their clients, will “make the difference” in improving diversity at the Bar, a leading Black QC has said.’
Legal Futures, 26th February 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Direct access barristers can be looked down on, and ignored by legal directories, because they do not have solicitors or other professional clients singing their praises, a leading family law specialist has argued.’
Legal Futures, 23rd February 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has today published its annual report, Diversity of BSB Staff and Board Members 2020. It follows the publication of the Diversity of the Bar report 2020, which showed that while diversity in the profession was gradually increasing, further progress was needed.’
Bar Standards Board, 22nd February 2021
Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk
‘Court proceedings have been launched against a climate charity lawyer for leaking a decision to expand Heathrow Airport.’
The Independent, 18th February 2021
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The Bar Council and Law Society have accused the Legal Services Board (LSB) of failing to take into account the impact of the pandemic on the profession in its latest draft strategy.’
Legal Futures, 17th February 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The actions of a barrister suspended for three months for the “intentional sexual touching” of two junior colleagues could amount to sexual assault and unlawful harassment, a tribunal has found.’
Legal Futures, 17th February 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘he justice secretary, Robert Buckland, is animated about the conduct of some lawyers, and what he intends to do about it. Invited by the Daily Mail this week to give his views on the immigration system, Buckland said he intended to bring in reforms to stop the public “being taken for a ride” by lawyers bringing challenges to prevent the last-minute deportation of their clients.’
The Guardian, 16th February 2021
Source: www.theguardian.com
