Reported instances of bullying and harassment at the Bar have increased in recent years, according to a survey of barristers’ working lives by the Bar Council.

Slaughter and May's latest pay review has cut the firm's trainee bonuses and frozen its associate salaries, while bonuses for support staff will remain the same as last year.

A number of firms, including Baker & McKenzie, Pinsent Masons and Mayer Brown, have confirmed how many Spring 2014 qualifiers have secured newly qualified positions.

The pressures on criminal barristers are forcing many to regularly skip lunch or any other form of break, the chair of the Criminal Bar Association has said.

Both undergraduate and postgraduate students considering a career at the Bar are now able to get involved with the Bar Council, benefitting from a number of its services and helping to support its work on access to justice.

The body representing barristers has urged the next government to reverse funding cuts which have left the justice system “on its knees”, in a manifesto highlighting hundreds of court closures and the growing number of people having to represent themselves in court despite having no legal training.

More than 16,000 walkers joined The Solicitors’ Charity at the 19th annual London Legal Walk – including us!

The government has wasted over £400,000 on failed attempts to push through legal aid reforms that would have further crippled the justice system if implemented, it has been revealed.

Barristers will stage a full day of strike action on 7 March in protest at the government’s proposed cuts to legal aid.

The SRA Board has decided that as of 1 August 2014, firms will no longer be obliged to pay trainees a minimum salary that is set by the SRA.

Members of the Criminal Bar Association are due to vote on whether to replace the current fortnightly strikes with uninterrupted ones as of 5 September.  

The Welsh government has proposed a new unified and expanded tribunal system: the Appeal Tribunal for Wales. 

Irwin Mitchell has again demonstrated its ambition to become an Alternative Business Structure, moving its application forward with the appointment of former PricewaterhouseCoopers vice-chairman Glyn Barker.

Over 1,000 small and medium-sized firms have gone under in the last 12 months, a recently published research paper has revealed.

With just one week to go until the general election, the majority of headlines are understandably focused on all things political.

The chairperson of the Criminal Bar Association, Nigel Lithman QC, has voiced his opposition to the government’s Quality Assurance Standards for Advocacy scheme, as well as its plans to cut 30% of all legal aid fees.

A new online find-a-barrister service for businesses and members of the public has been launched.

Paralegals will regulated for the first time through a voluntary scheme which it is hoped will prove their credentials to wary employers and members of the public.

At the recent CILEx awards, honouring excellence in study, practice and practical training, Bond Dickinson won the award for CILEx Employer of the Year Award in relation to its apprenticeship programme.

Pro bono legal assistance provided by Eversheds has saved children's charity, the Lane End Farm Trust, from closure.