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Blogger profile: The Secret Barrister

Counsel interviews The Secret Barrister, who started out as a counterweight to media misinformation and is the third legal commentator in a row named Independent Blogger of the Year (Comment Awards 2016)  

Where did the inspiration come from for the blog? 

21 February 2017
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Secret E-Diary

A digital case revives tragic memories  

'It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lighteneed the day's toil of any human being' – John Stuart Mill 

21 February 2017
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Chance meetings produce a traditional Christmas  

‘Revenge is profitable; gratitude is expensive.’ – Edward Gibbon 

24 January 2017
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Book review: Breaking Law: the Inside Guide to Your Legal Rights and Winning in Court or Losing Well

Author: Stephen Gold
Publisher: Bath Publishing (2016) 
Format: Paperback 517pp and e-book 
ISBN: 9780993583605 

24 January 2017
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Film review: Denial

Directed by Emmy Award® winner Mick Jackson (Temple Grandin ) and adapted for the screen by BAFTA and Academy Award® nominated writer David Hare (The Reader ).
Release date: 27 January 

24 January 2017
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Book review: Wrongful Allegations of Sexual and Child Abuse

Edited by: Ros Burnett
Publisher: Oxford University Press (2016)
Format: Hardcover 336pp 
​ISBN: 9780198723301
 

24 January 2017
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Book review: East West Street: on the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity

Author: Philippe Sands
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (2016)
Format: Hardcover 496pp and e-book
​ISBN: 9781474601900
 

24 January 2017
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Secret E-Diary

Law confidential?  

'A secret spoken finds wings'  – Robert Jordan, The Path of Daggers   

20 December 2016
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The Bar’s Brexit blogs

Following the capsizing uncertainty generated by Brexit, the general public and businesses are increasingly looking for answers. No surprise, then, that the Bar has become a rich source of reliable and politically neutral information on a wide range of complex legal issues, deciphering events as they happen. Counsel brings you the cream of the Brexit Bar blog crop  

20 December 2016
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Death row art

A critically acclaimed exhibition of a death row inmate’s life’s art has travelled from Arkansas to Temple Church. Samantha Knights explains Kenneth Reams’ journey  

Kenneth Reams sits in a tiny room working on an installation in readiness for the opening of his art exhibition in Little Rock, Arkansas.  

20 December 2016 / Samantha Knights
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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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