Counsel of Perfection
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...
Sunday, 5 May 2024
Tales of Tenancy
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Nobody likes job interviews. A lifetime of education, training and experience distilled into a 30 minute salvo of ‘What would you say is you...
Wednesday, 6 March 2024
In Defence of Jury Trial
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When you are slogging your guts out trying to bring some minuscule level of function to an essential but collapsing system it is wearing, to...
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