BARRISTER MAGAZINE

Under the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022, U.K. law now recognises something moral philosophy, religion and science have grappled with for centuries – animals are sentient. This raises a question: should the law continue to treat animals primarily as objects capable of human control and ownership, albeit to which duties of welfare are attached, or should animals be re...

“You need to understand that you’ll be competing against people who have been conditioned their entire lives to believe the Bar belongs to them.”

These words, said to me by a mentor while I was applying for pupillage, have stayed with me since because they identified something that the language of merit tends to obscure.

By Aleister Ada...

The Bar Council welcomes the government announcement that it will no longer be scrapping jury trials ahead of the Courts and Tribunals Bill returning to Parliament.

The Ministry of Justice has announced that it will no longer be replacing juries with a single judge in some cases.

Howev...

The Office for Legal Complaints recently carried out a public consultation on changes to the Legal Ombudsman (LeO) scheme rules, case fees and publishing decisions. Barristers currently represent only 4% of the total of LeO complaint cases.

The Chair of the Bar Council’s regul...