Contributing Writers

4 May 2017 - Robert O'Sullivan QC of the Bar Council's Law Reform Committee explains why the Bar Council and the Criminal Bar Association disagree with Law Commission proposals to change the way official secrets data is protected. 

20 April 2017 - The Bar Council’s IT Panel blogs on what you should do if you lose papers or end up compromising a client’s rights to secure data?

19 April 2017 - Tim Calland of the Bar Council's Law Reform Committee, blogs on the Law Commission Report on event fees in retirement property

23 March 2017 - Bar Council contributions on a range of issues including on-line courts, judicial diversity and Brexit have been well profiled in Parliament in the last fortnight.

9 March 2017 - Neelam Sarkaria, barrister and Vice President of the Association of Women Barristers, says the law is a powerful tool to stop and prevent offences of violence against women and girls being committed, but often the practising communities do not know that offences are being committed.

9 March 2017 - Wellbeing is ‘trending’ right now, but is it actually important? In the first of two blogs, Joanna Chatterton and David Murphy from Fox William LLP look at wellbeing at the Bar in more detail

9 March 2017 - In the first of a new series of blogs, Law Reform Update, we look at a recent change which creates a new legal position of a “fiduciary deputy” to handle the property and affairs of a missing person.

9 March 2017 - Eleena Misra, barrister and founder of Barristers Lean in Circle (BLIC) explains how, with the Gender Pay Gap regulations coming in, women barristers can and should take advantage of new initiatives to support each other in achieving their goals.