Barristers’ specialist advocacy skills have seen the Bar extend its remit far beyond traditional national limits, says Chantal-Aimee Doerries QC

The modern day barrister is as likely to be boarding an aeroplane at Heathrow to represent a client in the Middle East or the Caribbean as he or she is to be catching the Eurostar to appear in the European Court of Justice, or indeed walking down to the local courts to appear as an advocate in a trial in England and Wales.