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To mark International Women’s Day 2021, and this year’s theme ‘Choose to Challenge’, members of Carmelite Chambers have contributed articles highlighting and challenging an aspect of the Justice System that impacts women’s rights and welfare.
In this article, Ben Heaviside, our Senior Clerk discusses the importance of practice management, fair allocation of work and a tailored approach to clerking those returning from parental leave to ensure that female barristers in particular are able to stay – and flourish – at the independent Bar.
Tom Edwards looks at the impact of the shift from Joint Enterprise to Common Purpose in the five years since…
Ben Hargreaves explores the inherent challenges in the admissibility of sexual history in sex cases. Section 41 of the Youth…
Silas Lee, pupil barrister, reviews the statutory regime on witness anonymity. Anonymous witness orders are most commonly sought by the…
An analysis of the law on fitness to plead and stand trial in the magistrates’ courts: Silas Lee reviews the…