We had an excellent turnout for our Virtual Open Day last week, when barristers Paul Stagg, Ella Davis and Henk Soede, along with senior clerk Clark Chessis, spoke about life at 1CL and the Bar, as well as about pupillage, mini pupillage and diversity and inclusion. It was a very interactive session which gave aspiring barristers and law students the opportunity to have all their questions answered and to receive hints and tips on the application processes.
If you missed it, you can view it here.
The report of the National Audit on Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (“grooming gangs”) was published on 16th June. The Government confirmed the same day that action would be taken on each of the Audit’s 12 recommendations through introduction of legislation, police operations to…
This week Sarah Prager KC joins forces with Rebecca Huxford of Stewarts to bring news of a jurisdictional challenge in which (perhaps somewhat unusually) practical and logistical factors were placed front and centre. Practical and Logistical Factors in Challenges to Jurisdiction The High Court of…
On 21 May 2025, Mrs Justice Theis handed down a series of judgments, decided over several months from July 2024 to May 2025, in care proceedings concerning siblings who were the subject of physical and emotional abuse perpetrated by their parents. One parent was a…
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