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To celebrate International Women’s Day, Deka Chambers discuss the particular issues that women face in pursuing a career in law and the effect of intersectionality on our working lives.
Louise McCullough, Laura Elfield, Patricia Londono, Irene Sriharan and Susanna Bennett share their experiences, discuss the obstacles they have encountered and the importance of the support they have received along the way.
They consider how things have changed in recent years, what it’s like to come to the Bar as a second career, what it’s like to be a woman of colour in law and other issues they have faced in pursuing their careers.
This week Thomas Yarrow revisits the vexed question of the use of artificial intelligence in legal research – and our intrepid reporter finds that it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. In fact the experience led him to such depths of despair that he…
This week Ben Rodgers relays two tales from the coalface, both relating to applications to resile from admissions. Readers will be interested to know that in both cases the court applied the balance of prejudice test with the result that the defendants’ applications were refused….
This week Conor Kennedy considers a novel point of construction in relation to challenging service of claim forms; the headline is that defendants must take steps to mount a jurisdictional challenge within the tight deadlines provided for in the CPR, but Conor asks whether this…
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