Sir Ernest Ryder, Senior President of Tribunals, Caroline Wilson, Former British Consul-General to Hong Kong and Macao, and Steven Thiru, President of the Malaysian Bar and Chairman of the Bar Council in Malaysia, have been announced as keynote speakers at this year’s Bar and Young Bar Conference, in London’s Westminster Park Plaza on 15 October. The conference theme is innovation and global opportunity. Chantal-Aimee Doerries QC, Chairman of the Bar, says: “Innovation at the Bar and widening the profession’s global reach is now more important than ever.”