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CBA: Solicitor advocates better than barristers in youth court

Youth justice lessons not learnt 18 years after Bulger trial, says Doughty Street silk

MoJ 'fiddling while Rome burns' with extended court hours pilot

'It is hard enough to juggle work and home without evening sittings,' says silk

Bar and CILEx back online legal education portal

The Lawyer Portal to make careers in law 'accessible to all', says its managing director

HMCTS plans to extend court hours a blow for women barristers

Plans jar with government's commitment to improving judicial diversity

BSB: Direct access 'working well' but no room for complacency

Regulator's research finds barriers to schemes and 'poor service' from barristers

Justice is blind

Silk handed £1,000 fine after Stevie Wonder website claim

Solicitor QCs: Silk goes to big-ticket commercial litigators

More solicitors and a more diverse picture in latest QC appointments

Lawyers must not 'prop up' ailing legal aid system

Law Society launches new pro bono charter, but warns against free advice becoming a substitute to 'a properly funded legal aid system'