Barbara Mills KC
Bar Chair
Barbara Mills KC is Chair of the Bar 2025 and joint head of chambers at 4PB (4pb.com). Newlawjournal.co.uk
Bar Chair
Barbara Mills KC is Chair of the Bar 2025 and joint head of chambers at 4PB (4pb.com). Newlawjournal.co.uk
In the wake of the Harman review, Barbara Mills KC sets out the Bar Council’s response
Now is the time to take a proactive approach to barristers’ wellbeing, rather than waiting for things to go wrong: Barbara Mills KC sets out the case for better support
Barbara Mills KC on building a mediation practice from scratch, the joy of formal dance & how she intends to use her year as Chair of the Bar Council to bring about a greater sense of inclusion
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MOVERS & SHAKERS
Red Lion Chambers—Maurice MacSweeney
Set creates new client and business development role amid growth
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Private wealth and tax offering bolstered by partner hire
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Firm grows real estate team with tenth partner hire this financial year
NEWS
The rank of King’s Counsel (KC) has been awarded to 96 barristers, and no solicitors, in the latest silk round
Early determination is no longer a novelty in arbitration. In NLJ this week, Gustavo Moser, arbitration specialist lawyer at Lexis+, charts the global embrace of summary disposal powers, now embedded in the Arbitration Act 1996 and mirrored worldwide. Tribunals may swiftly dismiss claims with ‘no real prospect of succeeding’, but only if fairness is preserved
The Ministry of Justice is once again in the dock as access to justice continues to deteriorate. NLJ consultant editor David Greene warns in this week's issue that neither public legal aid nor private litigation funding looks set for a revival in 2026
Civil justice lurches onward with characteristic eccentricity. In his latest Civil Way column, Stephen Gold, NLJ columnist, surveys a procedural landscape featuring 19-page bundle rules, digital possession claims, and rent laws he labels ‘bonkers’
Can a chief constable be held responsible for disobedient officers? Writing in NLJ this week, Neil Parpworth, professor of public law at De Montfort University, examines a Court of Appeal ruling that answers firmly: yes
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