🔔 Speaker panel announced
Bullying at the Bar – Diminishing or Endemic?
Speakers:
🎙️Barbara Mills KC
🎙️Deshpal Panesar KC
🎙️Darren Howe KC
🎙️Charlotte Kilroy KC
🎙️Susannah Burley
🗓 Tue 3 March | 6–7.30pm
📍 Middle Temple | 💻 £5 online | 🏛 £10 in person
🎟 tinyurl.com/vey3vrcw
Event poster for the Inns of Court Alliance for Women: “Bullying at the Bar: A Diminishing or Endemic Problem?” Chaired by Ruth Kirby KC. Tuesday 3 March 2026, 5:30pm, Middle Temple. In person and online. Background image of law books.
Bullying at the Bar – A Diminishing or Endemic Problem?
🗓 Tuesday 3 March, 6pm
A panel discussion responding to the Harriet Harman 2025 report for the Bar Council on bullying and harassment.
Open to: Members of all Inns
📍 Middle Temple / online
🎟 tinyurl.com/vey3vrcw
Promotional image for an ICAW event titled “Navigating Parenthood at the Bar.” In the background, several barristers are shown in conversation at a professional networking event, including a woman smiling while speaking with colleagues. Along the bottom of the image are the logos of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, the Inner Temple, the Middle Temple, and Gray’s Inn.
Parenthood and life at the Bar don’t come with a manual. Balancing practice and caring responsibilities, from early parenthood to supporting children with additional needs, is complex and evolving.
Watch our webinar Navigating Parenthood at the Bar
👉 www.innertemple.org.uk/parenthood-at-the-bar
In foreground three women in discussion at an event. Text: ICAW Navigating Parenthood at the Bar, Monday 8 December 2025, 18:00. Online. Chaired by Mrs Justice Lieven, this event brings together a diverse panel of legal professionals to explore the personal and professional realities of balancing legal careers with parenthood.
Book now for Navigating Parenthood at the Bar on 8 Dec.
Chaired by Mrs Justice Lieven, this event brings together
a diverse panel of legal professionals to explore the personal
and professional realities of balancing legal careers
with parenthood.
📆 8 Dec, 6pm
📍 Online
🎟️ tinyurl.com/2wntcykr
A photograph showing an audience looking towards a stage at Inner Temple with a wood panelled backdrop and glass cabinets. Seated on the stage in armchairs are the Lady Chief Justice and the Chair of the Bar. Mrs Justice May is standing to the right at a lectern speaking.
We’re absolutely thrilled to be co-hosting an evening in conversation between the Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr and Chair of the Bar Barbara Mills KC with @innertemple.org.uk. With wonderful introductions to these incredible leaders from Mrs Justice May.
Two women greeting each other with a hug, in the background women in conversation outside a marquee
Three women in conversation laughing, inside a marquee with the garden visible through the windows behind them
The Rt Hon Lady Simler DBE giving her welcome address at the ICAW Garden Party. View is taken through audience, with more audience in the background listening to the speech
Inner Temple ICAW Co-Convenor, Leigh-Ann Mulcahy KC, introducing the speaker at this year's Cross-Profession Garden Party. Outside in the sunshine at a lectern with a marquee in the background
The sun was out for our annual ICAW Cross-Profession Garden Party on Monday, we had an amazing turn out! ☀️🥂
Special thanks to The Rt Hon Lady Simler DBE, for her inspiring welcome speech, and to all those who attended, making it such an unforgettable occasion.
Hope to see you all next year!
Tables of people having dinner in Lincoln's Inn Hall
Our friends @lincolnsinn.bsky.social are holding a fantastic event celebrating women in law. Book by 2 June 👇
Empowering Women in the Law: a Celebration of Inclusivity and Allyship.
🎙️Baroness Scotland
📆 10 June
📍Lincoln's Inn
Open to: Legal profession & guests
🎟️https://tinyurl.com/5y6ehmpy
View from lectern looking out over the garden at people chatting. Logos of the four Inns across the top
😍Thanks to everyone who's booked, we're delighted that the ICAW Cross-Profession Garden Party on 23 June has sold out so quickly.
If you missed out, we are running a reserve list at www.innertemple.org.uk/icaw25
Profile photograph of Heidi Stonecliffe KC smiling. White text across a pink banner reads: "Heidi Stonecliffe KC elected Bar Council Vice Chair for 2026". The Bar Council logo is in the top left corner.
White text on a pink background reads: "I will do all I can to shine a spotlight on the vital work that every part of the profession contributes to society so that the public joins our collective voice in demanding a justice system fit for purpose and accessible to all. - Heidi Stonecliffe KC, Vice Chair elect" There are large white quote marks at the the top and bottom of the image.
Heidi Stonecliffe KC, snr advocate at the CPS, has been elected as Vice Chair of the Bar for 2026 - she'll become the first employed barrister to take up the post in our 132-year history. Congratulations @hskc.bsky.social.
Read more in our press release: www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/hei...
