Gazette reporter Jonathan Rayner has won the print category of this year’s Bar Council awards for outstanding legal reporting. He received the accolade for a piece published on 5 March that addressed his son’s mental ­illness and journey through the health and ­justice systems. 

Bar Council chairman Desmond Browne QC said: ‘The judges felt that Jonathan Rayner’s piece on the difficulties facing those suffering from mental illness gave an insight into a difficult area of the justice ­system, from a very personal perspective.’

Rayner (pictured) received the award from Danny Shaw, home affairs correspondent at BBC Radio 4.

The broadcast category was won by Gazette columnist Joshua Rozenberg for Radio 4 programme Top Dogs, which addressed the genesis and role of the Supreme Court.