Barbara Rich

I was called to the bar (qualified as a barrister) in 1990, thirty years ago, and half way through my life to date. I've revised something I wrote in 2017 to reflect on reaching thirty years' call - as much about time and place and other lives as mine abarbararich.medium.com/at-thirty-year…

Community Interest Companies are inadequately regulated. They self-certify their community benefits on incorporation and in their annual reports in documents which seem never to be questioned. I would only deal with one whose work or directors I knew something of at first hand

Whether you’re Left, Right or neither, the answer to “is the wealth tax a good idea” can’t be an article of faith. It comes down to evidence. Like this: taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/07/22/uk-…

I don’t think it’s good enough for James O’Brien simply to apologise and claim he read out what he did in good faith. He’s a man who likes to boast of “how to be right”, yet reveals himself (not for the first time) to be profoundly stupid and credulous where he should be wiser

A month on from the Commons vote on assisted suicide, it’s clear that quite a few MPs were confused about the bill or influenced by misinformation. Here are 10 examples:

The previous Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks, wrote this 9 years ago.

This article misleadingly omits what Mrs Justice Yip actually discussed and decided. It is not good enough to simply characterise someone as "family" and then they're in. And in this specific case, Yip J in fact refused the application of the ex-wife to be allowed in.

New blogpost: The Afghan super-injunction case: Some constitutional implications publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/07/17/the…

A few points on this - @barstandards are right to follow a recent ruling on the large extent of lawyers’ Article 10 freedom of expression, even extending to harsh criticism of judges and their decisions, and not take action here - @barstandards don’t regulate the GLP as an…

From hospital workers in Scotland to swimmers on Hampstead Heath women largely want to undress and change their clothes away from the sight of men they are not intimate with. The amount of legal obfuscation deployed in various places to ignore or deny this simple truth is amazing