All articles by Catherine Baksi – Page 6
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NewsLawyers sceptical about ‘unconscious bias’ training
Flexible working is more effective at improving diversity, IBA survey for International Women’s Day suggests.
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NewsCalls for ad-hoc tribunal to try Putin
International legal order should press for an 'immediate and swift' mechanism, lawyers say in open letter.
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NewsLaw students demand refund over lecturer strikes
'Students are seen as mere school children, rather than paying customers’.
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NewsImmigration lawyers reach out to support fleeing Ukrainians
More than 100 barristers and solicitors have signed up with Ukraine Advice Project UK.
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NewsStudents face long wait for SQE2 exams
Hundreds of students will have their qualification as solicitors delayed, the Gazette has learned.
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OpinionOut of balance: should the AG lead the bar?
Critics suggest the role of the Attorney General has become increasingly politicised.
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NewsSolicitor named in Westminster ‘influence buying’ alert
SRA confirms that Christine Ching Kui Lee was admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in February 2002.
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OpinionCriminal defence: dead in a decade?
Criminal Bar Association figures show that 22% of juniors and 46% of QCs have left the criminal bar during the last five years.
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FeatureLeft hanging
Imprisonment for public protection swiftly became a policy without supporters. Abolished in 2012, why are so many prisoners still caught in its clutches? Catherine Baksi reports
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NewsFirm in private prosecutions row is to close
Widnes-based Parry & Welch Solicitors files notice that it is to go into administration.
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NewsFirm fails to wind up charity over allegedly unpaid fees
Petition to wind up Animal Protection Services a 'flagrant and serious' breach of insolvency rules.
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NewsAbsolute failure: direct access bar service goes under
Uncertainty for clients as Absolute Barrister, which offered unbundled services online, calls in administrators.
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NewsComplaints about barristers’ conduct soar
Bar Standards Board reports ‘dramatic increase’ in reports of inappropriate social media use.
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NewsTributes paid to first Muslim QC
Flag at Inner Temple flown at half mast to mark the death of Sibghatullah (Sibghat) Kadri QC, who has died at 84.
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NewsCharity’s private prosecution ‘perverting the course of public justice’
Judge rules case was pursued 'with no evidential basis' and 'for wholly improper reasons'.
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NewsCovid ping causes collapse of murder trial
Jury at Croydon Crown Court discharged four days into a three-week trial.
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NewsJudges owed a duty of care, government concedes
Admission comes amid growing complaints of bullying among the judiciary.
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NewsEU court’s legitimacy ‘in the doghouse’ over Sharpston sacking
QC challenged decision to end her appointment as advocate general early.
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NewsHale quits Hong Kong judicial post
Decision is ‘not a comment on what’s going on there’, former Supreme Court president insists.
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NewsLegal peers rail at lobbying rules
Disclosure of payments could cost London its reputation, Lords argue.