the barrister
#56
ESSENTIAL READING FOR BARRISTERS
9 th A pril - 24 th M ay 2013
E st . 1999
www.barristermagazine.com
Easter Term ISSUE
ISSN 1468-926X
Judicial Diversity – working for change
Features
There are many truisms about a career in
that I should consider becoming a Deputy
the law, none more obvious than the fact
District
that we will all be faced, often on a regular
Perhaps
basis, with competing priorities for our
of
attention. I know that when I was a partner
at the time it had
in my law firm my professional and family
never occurred to
responsibilities often competed and, without
me that I would be
the support I received from others, juggling
suitable. If others
would have been all the tougher. Given
are thinking this
the constraints on my time the question of
way, then we may
whether to become a judge or not was the
be missing out on
last thing on my mind. I remember being
a range of talented
surprised when someone suggested to me
candidates
the
price £2.80
limbo for would-be barristers has been opened 11 Career up with a new route into the legal profession
Judge.
By Patricia McHale, Senior Lecturer in Law, London Metropolitan University
because situation
24 Are You Sick of Diversity? By Caroline Newman LLM, non-practising solicitor and Principal Consultant at Lawdacity
Helen Grant MP Justice Minister
for
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and law: 28 Language reclaiming the human rights Debate By Lucy Scott-Moncrieff, President, Law Society
Public funding cuts and the future of the junior Bar
News
April 2013 sees the introduction of some
funded by the LSC. Further, this significant
of the most far reaching changes to the
reduction in the availability of public
public funding of Family Law cases in
funding is only one facet of the broader
many years. Among the raft of significant
reduction in funding for Family Law cases.
changes which are due to come into effect
Funding for financial relief and other
in that month, perhaps the most significant
miscellaneous Family Law cases is also
is that private Children Act cases will no
being constricted; the LSC has stated that
longer be eligible for public funding at all,
it envisages its coming reforms to public
save in cases where there are allegations of
funding to lead to an 83% reduction in the
domestic violence.
number of financial relief cases it funds,
Publishing Director: Derek Payne
while overall the LSC has indicated that
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According to the LSC's own figures, this
it intends its reforms to lead to a general
is intended to lead to a 75% reduction in
reduction of 56% in the number
the number of private Children Act cases
of private Family Law cases which
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Bar Council calls for proportionate regulation in response to LSB’s business plan
23
‘Risk-assessed’ supervision consultation launched
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