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Balance of power

‘Shifting powers’ and an ‘unfair, hostile and resource-driven’ climate are sidelining the needs of vulnerable defendants and witnesses, the ICCA’s ambitious inaugural conference ...

20 December 2016 / David Wurtzel

Seed-funding justice

A call for views: Justin Fenwick QC explains how a properly thought-out contingency legal aid fund on a not-for-profit basis could fit into the new landscape of litigation ...

20 December 2016 / Justin Fenwick KC

Criminal finances

Jonathan Fisher QC briefs readers on the most radical overhaul of law on criminal property since the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 The Criminal Finances Bill is currently making ...

20 December 2016 / Jonathan Fisher KC

Miller and the duties of the LC

Sir Jeffrey Jowell QC asks whether the Lord Chancellor should have acted to stem the misleading and inflammatory media allegations which continue in the wake of ...

20 December 2016 / Sir Jeffrey Jowell KCMG KC

Live links in the Crown court

Richard Hearnden sets out the case for greater use of cheaper, off-the-shelf systems in the Crown court without recourse to changes in the law The publication of Transforming ...

20 December 2016 / Richard Hearnden

Brexit’s Gordian Knot

Deciding how we Brexit is not within the government's gift, argues Dominic Grieve QC MP. No Parliament worth its name can abandon input into the biggest and most complex ...

16 December 2016 / Dominic Grieve

Brave new world

How will losing passporting rights affect the UK’s financial services sector? Saima Hanif argues that the equivalence regime is not a satisfactory alternative As the President ...

21 November 2016 / Saima Hanif

Brexit in court

Professor Michael Zander QC assesses the High Court decision and predicts the government is likely to lose its appeal to the Supreme Court Asked on the day for a first ...

21 November 2016 / Michael Zander KC

Sexual history evidence: fair game?

Ali Naseem Bajwa QC and Eva Niculiu examine the issues raised by use of the complainant’s sexual history in the Ched Evans rape retrial On the night of 29-30 May 2011, a ...

21 November 2016 / Eva Niculiu / Ali Naseem Bajwa

The ‘radical’ challenge

When does the state have the right to interfere in family life on the basis of radical views held by family members? Damian Woodward-Carlton reports on the inherent difficulties ...

21 November 2016 / Damian Woodward-Carlton KC

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