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Lawyers in film: The Trial (1962)

A dark reminder in a new age of excessive compliance? David Langwallner celebrates Franz Kafka’s The Trial  and Orson Welles’ genius adaptation

22 September 2021 / David Langwallner

My top ten: legal TV dramas

Jason M Hadden's ultimate top ten of TV legal dramas

30 August 2021 / Jason M Hadden MBE
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Secret E-Diary

Memory Lane or Nightmare Alley?

26 August 2021 / William Byfield
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Book review: Making Commercial Law Through Practice 1830-1970

By Ross Cranston 

ISBN 9781108182836 Cambridge University Press (May 2021) 

Reviewed by Nikki Singla QC 

26 August 2021 / Nikki Singla KC
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Book review: Leaving The Arena: a Story of Bar and Bench

By David Keene    

I.B. Tauris (Online Edition: 2020) ISBN 9781788318273 
Reviewed by John Bowers QC

11 August 2021 / John Bowers KC
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Book review: Caravaggio’s Cardsharps on Trial

By Richard E Spear 

Paul Holberton Publishing (2020) ISBN 9781916237810 

Reviewed by Gilead Cooper QC 

  

03 August 2021 / Gilead Cooper KC

Secret E-Diary

Junior dependency syndrome

29 July 2021 / William Byfield
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Lawyers in film: Witness for The Prosecution (1957)

One of our most notable courtroom dramas is also a useful illustration of a barrister’s craft, writes David Langwallner

02 June 2021 / David Langwallner

Secret E-Diary

Spring is sprung

01 June 2021 / William Byfield

The redress of art and poetry

Marking Mental Health Awareness Week, and publication of the National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance's latest guide for prison staff, Tim Kiely looks at access to creative activity and how essential it is to the wellbeing of people in prison 

09 May 2021 / Timothy Kiely
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Hope and expectation for the new legal year

The beginning of the legal year offers the opportunity for a renewed commitment to justice and the rule of law both at home and abroad

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