Leaky courts, broken heating and a backlog of more than 79,000 criminal cases in England and Wales paint a picture of a ...

Criminal barristers in Northern Ireland who are striking indefinitely have called for urgency in addressing the "crisis" in ...

PARIS (Reuters) - French lawyer Sarah Asmeta wears a hijab at work but that means she is banned by her local Bar Council from representing clients in the courtroom. She has been fighting to overturn ...

IN the common law world, some countries maintain a split legal profession by separately recognizing the roles of “barrister” and “solicitor.” This division stems primarily from historical ties to the ...

Barristers have won the right to go without their famous and historically significant wigs in court after campaigners branded them 'culturally insensitive'. Revised guidance from The Bar Council now ...