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10 November 2017
Issue: 7769 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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Wellbeing hub

Barristers are to be offered extra help with tough ethical questions that arise in the course of their work, along with guidance on IT and equality and diversity. The Bar Council has launched a new website, the Ethics & Practice Hub, to help barristers and chambers with these issues. The Hub, at www.barcouncilethics.co.uk, can be used on mobile devices, and will supplement the Bar Council’s Ethical Enquiries Service. Andrew Langdon QC, Chair of the Bar, said the council’s Ethical Enquiries Service had received more than 6,500 calls and emails from barristers in the last year.

Meanwhile, some 30 chambers and Bar organisations received a Bar Council Certificate of Recognition for good wellbeing practice last week. The second round of applications opened this week and closes on 1 February 2018.

Issue: 7769 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Bell Yard Kysen—Liz Giles

Bell Yard Kysen—Liz Giles

Bell Yard Kysen appoints senior legal PR and ex-government communications adviser, Liz Giles

Clarke Willmott—Lee Edwards

Clarke Willmott—Lee Edwards

Clarke Willmott boosts Southampton commercial property team with addition of partner Lee Edwards

Lime Solicitors—four promotions

Lime Solicitors—four promotions

Lime Solicitors announces four promotions

NEWS
The Attorney General, Ellie Reeves KC MP, and Solicitor General, Andy Slaughter KC MP, marked the 25th anniversary of Pro Bono Week by joining lawyers, charities, students and parliamentarians at events celebrating voluntary legal work
Possession claims are entering a new digital era, with procedural traps awaiting practitioners who assume familiar rules still govern every step
Witness evidence can be compromised by AI before a solicitor sees the draft, leaving safeguards focused on authorship incomplete
Should a conviction stand when a later ruling reveals that the law underpinning it was wrong? The answer exposes a clash between finality and justice
The Environment Agency can prosecute offences beyond environmental legislation where proceedings support its statutory functions, the Divisional Court has confirmed
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