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Chair of the Bar's speech at the swearing in of the Lord Chancellor and law officers
The Opening of the Legal Year comes at a time of growing concern over attacks on judicial independence and increasing threats and harassment faced by lawyers worldwide.
Transparency itself is now understood to encompass not just opening up the courts to the media and legal bloggers, but to a whole host of other ways of doing family justice that make the system more understandable, more insightful, and more accountable.
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New figures revealing record court backlogs in England and Wales provide further evidence that the government should scrap the previous administration’s plans to restrict access to jury trials.