In this special episode, we discuss life at the junior Bar with one of the Civil Law Team's newest members; current pupil Natalie Croll.

Natalie is a few months away from completing her pupillage and has taken the time to chat with Michael about her route to the Bar, her experiences as a pupil and her career aspirations for the future. This is an excellent episode for anyone looking to learn more about how to achieve pupillage or hoping to instruct the next generation of talent at the civil Bar!

In this episode Michael is joined by Timothy Jacques, a Barrister at Cornwall Street Barristers in Birmingham, for a fascinating analysis and discussion of the development of the law relating to compensation for secondary trauma victims. This particular area of civil law is tricky to navigate both in principle and in practice but raises a lot of very interesting issues for discussion.

In this episode Simon Bradshaw, the Head of the Civil Law Team and Michael Trevelyan, the Deputy Head, discuss the extraordinary High Court case of Crypto Open Patent Alliance v Dr Craig Steven Wright. As the Court grapples with the true identity of the mysterious creator of Bitcoin we explore the twists and turns of this very unusual litigation.