ARTICLES by our Direct Access Barristers

Introduction The allegation that the UK is implementing a two-tier criminal justice system has recently gained prominence. The meaning...

In a recent Judgment the Supreme Court found that a pilot's illness did not amount to an extraordinary circumstance, for the purposes of...

I wrote a brief article about the Sam Melia conviction, see HERE . I also mentioned the case in my article about Anarcho-Tyranny, see...

The term anarcho-tyranny was first coined by Samuel Francis, see HERE & HERE . Francis states: “What we have in this country today, then, is both anarchy (the failure of the state to enforce the laws) and, at the same time, tyranny—the enforcement of laws by the state for oppressive purposes; the criminalization of the law-abiding and innocent through exorbitant taxation, bureaucratic regulation, the invasion of privacy, and the engineering of social institutions, such a

The common answer to the above question is that the barrister appears in Court to present a case and the solicitor is involved in...

1. Hate speech laws should not be in place. The aim of these laws is political, the most charitable description of these aims would...

Problems with Generative Artificial intelligence The Bar Council has recently released guidance titled, ‘ Considerations when using...

The above is a fairly well known rule imparted to barristers during their training at an early stage. The rule was recently considered...