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2025 Sir Henry Brooke Lecture Video
A video of the 2025 Sir Henry Brooke Lecture, 'Valuing Lawyers', given by Lady Chief Justice Carr on 20 March 2025 is now available. A text version of Lady Carr's lecture is also available in BAILII's UK Judiciary Speeches database.

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Most-downloaded judgments
To help users stay up-to-date, BAILII now has a summary listing of the judgments viewed most often in the last week.

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