Today, 8th March, is International Women’s Day with this year’s theme being Break the Bias.
To mark this, Laura Johnson, Francesca O’Neill and Kerry Nicholson discuss what it’s like to be a woman at the Bar. They share their insights and give advice, covering topics including recruitment, retention and career planning, considering the position of women at the Bar today, the progress that’s been achieved and what is still to be done.
This week we examine an unusual arbitration case involving (or did it?) a foreign limitation period; and another decision on the tension between open justice and protection of commercially sensitive information (we understand, by the way, that on 25th February the Court of Appeal will…
This week we look at two decisions, both of which will be of critical importance to practitioners in pursuance of contested litigation. In one, unusually, without prejudice correspondence was admissible in a case involving fundamental dishonesty; whilst in the other, the court reviewed the authorities…
Following a 5-day liability trial in the High Court in Manchester, the Claimant’s negligence and Human Rights Act claims were dismissed by HHJ Bird sitting as a Judge of the High Court. The Claimant was a Type 1 diabetic who suffered from a history of…
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