New heights for bar leader

Watch or read my interview with Sam Townend KC

Sam Townend KC must be the first chair of the bar who knows anything about dredging. But I didn’t have to dig too deeply to learn about his priorities for 2024.

One of his concerns struck me as both surprising and disturbing. The Bar Council’s latest earnings analysis suggests that men earn 17% more on average than women in the first three years of self-…