The Bar

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The rise of the DIY lawyer

Catherine Mason and Stephen Brown consider how barristers should best handle litigants in person

Chairman's address: the Bar has risen to challenges in the past and will do so again

It is a testing time for the profession, but the Bar has risen to challenges in the past and will do so again, says Nicholas Lavender QC

Life at the Bar in Leeds

Closer working relationships and a lower cost of living are two reasons Simon Wilkinson is advocating life outside of London

SJ about town

Developing the profession is not a 9 to 5

Bar Council focuses on health and wellbeing

Barristers' performance at risk from lack of mental health awareness

The Bar must stand firm against QASA

While ostensibly we have to accept the ruling in Lumsdon, it seems a scheme that has so many obvious flaws and is founded upon so many misconceptions is bound to fail in the near future.

We can be heroes, just for one day

Go ahead and kill all the lawyers, says Felix, but then where will you be?

A popular profession?

Should the legal profession be more popular with the public than it currently is? That is the question that has been circling my mind this week since Kevin Poulter asked what makes a 'good lawyer' in last week's issue, and questioned whether a practitioner must only work for the underdog to be considered as such.