Counsel of Perfection
Thursday, 9 January 2025
What Children Need
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The thing about the Spanish Inquisition is that it did not just inquire it acted. Its actions may have been bloody and merciless but nobody ...
Thursday, 19 December 2024
Gisèle - An Acclamation
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France is a different country, they do things differently there. You can tell a lot about a country from how it addresses allegations of s...
Monday, 14 October 2024
Tolerating the Intolerable
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There was a point during the barristers' strike when I realised that Dominic Raab simply would not relent, whatever the consequences to ...
Wednesday, 25 September 2024
Proper prosecutors and Independent advocates
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When I was a child we moved into a new house and piled all the boxes into a first floor room. Shortly after that there was a sound like the ...
Monday, 5 August 2024
A Tribute to Paul Darling OBE KC
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When I was considering a career at the Bar a good piece of advice I was given was have a look at everything, as it's only when you'v...
Thursday, 18 July 2024
The Disease Not The Cure - Andrew Malkinson & The CCRC
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In the world of criminal appeals a ‘DNA case’ is an open goal. By that I mean when a convicted prisoner proclaims that their conviction was ...
Saturday, 22 June 2024
Blowing our own trumpets - Barristers and social media
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There is a not insignificant part of me that longs to have a chambers profile, sans photo and text, that simply states: If you would li...
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