The Bar

Articles

21 Dec 2015

A year of milestones

Junior commercial litigator Celina McGregor reflects on a busy 12 months for the profession

15 Dec 2015

Restraint orders: Reasonable suspicion and reporting

Changes made by the Serious Crime Act are likely to cause more problems than they solve, ?write Rupert Bowers QC and Daniel Godden

15 Dec 2015

Exhumation laws are anything but dead and buried

Robert Fookes considers the law on the exhumation of remains and the exceptions ?to the presumption that burial in consecrated ground is final

8 Dec 2015

We will not be commoditised, says Bar chair-elect

Chantal-Aimée Doerries QC questions why the MoJ does not have a ringfenced budget

8 Dec 2015

Law firm opts for BARCO escrow account despite pricing myths

BARCO director aims to put the record straight about account charges

8 Dec 2015

End of the dock as we know it

The use of the dock in court has been questioned by campaigners seeking to implement alternative methods of trying a defendant, says Matthew Reynolds

2 Dec 2015

Data breaches by solicitors and barristers increase by a third

Sensitive information held by law firms means any breach could warrant intervention by ICO, says lead policy officer

1 Dec 2015

A 'broad, somewhat philosophical question'

Is bridge a sport? An interested public and press wanted the High Court's answer to this question when it decided the English Bridge Union's (EBU) judicial review of Sport England's (SE) refusal to recognise it as a sport.