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21 May 2025
Issue: 8117 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Charities
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The Bar v the Bench: who’s the fastest?

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The Bar v the Bench race has returned, this time with solicitors entering the fray

Teams from the Bar (led by last year's Bar Council chair Sam Townend KC), Bench (led by High Court judge Sir Adam Constable) and Law Society (led by chief executive Ian Jeffery) will go head-to-head and race 10km around the London Legal Walk’s route to help raise money for the London Legal Support Trust (LLST).

Last year, 18,000 people took part, raising more than £1m. Townend said: ‘Everyone in the legal profession will join us to push the sum raised to over £1m again this year’.

The London Legal Walk takes place on Tuesday 17 June. 

Issue: 8117 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Charities
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