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-employed practice. Why might this be?
You can read my interview with the barristers’ leader in the latest edition of Counsel magazine. And you can watch a video of the interview here.