The Bar

Articles

1 Apr 2014

Do we need barristers' chambers anymore?

In the wake of the criminal legal aid deal between barristers and the justice secretary, Adam Makepeace asks whether it's time for solicitors to employ advocates as agents

19 Mar 2014

Lawyer dramas are more like real life documentaries these days

There are so few barristers in 'Silk' it makes the programme look like the post-Grayling apocalypse, says Felix

27 Jan 2014

Only 12 barristers register for QASA

Judicial review defeat fails to make impact as registration period extended

19 Nov 2013

Time on our hands

When further cost cuts are made in April, what will we do with our time, asks Felix

4 Nov 2013

Barristers refuse to act in 40 high cost legal aid cases

Lithman leads VHCC boycott from front by refusing to work on retrial

25 Sept 2013

Mansfield to set up new chambers as Tooks collapses

Only 15 of 55 barristers from Tooks to join him at Mansfield Chambers

23 Sept 2013

End of Tooks Chambers a 'direct result' of legal aid cuts

Government policies 'devastating the provision of legal services and threatening the rule of law'

17 Sept 2013

BSB presses on with preparation for QASA

Bar regulator undeterred by judicial review as it continues preparatory work for end of month roll out