BARRISTER MAGAZINE

Dr. Ilia Kolochenko  talks about the post-honeymoon phase of AI and how it is landing  lawyers, arbitrators and other legal professionals in hot water

The Bar Standards Board (BSB) is delighted to announce the appointment of one new lay Board member and three new barrister Board members. Professor Jean-Noël Ezingeard and Sara Lawson KC will join the Board this month. Abiodun Michael Olatokun FRSA joins the Board from 1 July and Mark Fenhalls KC will join the Board from 1 October. All join for an initial term of four years.<...

The Bar Council is calling on the UK Government to ratify the Council of Europe’s Convention on the Protection of the Profession of Lawyer (the Luxembourg Treaty) on the anniversary of its launch.

The convention is an international instrument dedicated to protecting the freedom and independence of the global legal profession, and it aims to strengthen the abil...

By Nicholas Blomfield

A corporate legal team uses an AI platform such as Legora to analyse contractual risk ahead of a transaction. The output is structured, confident, and commercially framed. It concludes that a particular regulatory approval is not required.

Completion proceeds. The conclusion is incorrect. The approval was required ...

It would be silly to suggest that this is not an incredibly thorny issue.

By Colette Russell, Pupil Barrister, The Chambers of Mark Love

In October 2025, 4 women resigned from the Panel of the Grooming Gangs Inquiry, because they felt the Inquiry was not doing enough to address what they felt were obvious racialised issues and instead ...