‘The Bar Standards Board (BSB) is to gather evidence from solicitors on how they choose a barrister, including whether they offer their clients a choice – or even take account of a client’s views.’
Legal Futures, 14th July 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has published a new Equality Strategy and a new Research Strategy.’
Bar Standards Board, 13th July 2022
Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk
‘Following the Legal Services Board’s approval of the Bar Standards Board’s application to change its rules, the BSB will abolish the requirement that students should pass the Bar Course Aptitude Test (BCAT) before starting vocational training with effect from 31 July.’
Bar Standards Board, 11th July 2022
Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk
‘A Court of Appeal ruling that the wording of a settlement of a personal injury claim supplanted fixed costs could have “significant” implications, including for cases that have already settled, a leading costs barrister has warned.’
Legal Futures, 11th July 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A litigant in person is not statute-barred from suing a law centre and barrister for professional negligence, a High Court master has ruled.’
Legal Futures, 5th July 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Barristers have accused the Government of “refusing” to negotiate as strikes continue at criminal courts around the country for a second week.’
The Independent, 4th July 2022
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Criminal cases in courts across England and Wales face further disruption as barristers enter a second week of strike action. The walkouts began last week in a long-running dispute over pay and conditions.’
BBC News, 4th July 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Lord Hamblen, Keynote Speech. Expert Witness Institute Online Conference 2022.’
Supreme Court, 30th June 2022
Source: www.supremecourt.uk
‘The Government has announced the next steps in the criminal legal aid review including a Statutory Instrument to be laid in Parliament by 21 July to bring in a fee increase of 15% for the Advocates’ Graduated Fee Scheme (AGFS – i.e. the fees paid to barristers) from 30 September 2022.’
The Bar Council, 30th June 2022
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
”Usually one of the busiest courts in the country, the corridors of Manchester crown court were unusually quiet.’
The Guardian, 27th June 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A costs judge has rejected calls for claimant lawyers to be punished for alleged conflict in the way counsel was instructed to handle a case.’
Law Society's Gazette, 24th June 2022
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Barristers will walk out of courts across England and Wales on Monday in a dispute over legal aid funding. During the strikes, they will not accept new cases or take on work for colleagues whose cases have overrun.’
BBC news, 27th June 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Barristers who are not already instructed to appear at a hearing and who wish to refuse to work on a particular day or for a particular period are in general free to do so. Therefore, in principle, barristers can book a day in their professional diary as unavailable because they wish to participate in a protest on that day.’
Bar Standards Board, 23rd June 2022
Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk
‘The Bar Standards Board has told striking barristers that it will focus in particular on any harm caused, if they are referred for disciplinary action.’
Legal Futures, 23rd June 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Criminal barristers have voted to strike in an escalating dispute with the government over funding for trials.’
BBC News, 20th June 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Bar Council is calling for more funding for the justice system, as it launches a new, live, interactive map of key national and regional data on access to justice across England and Wales.’
The Bar Council, 20th June 2022
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
‘The government has revealed that it hopes to lay secondary legislation shortly that would see criminal legal aid fees increase by the end of September.’
Law Society's Gazette, 17th June 2022
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The announcement of three specialist courtrooms to prosecute rape cases has been dismissed as a “gimmick” that does not address the chronic underfunding of the justice system that led to a fall in convictions.’
The Guardian, 16th June 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Following the Prime Minister’s comments suggesting lawyers representing migrants were “abetting the work of criminal gangs”, the Bar Council and Law Society of England and Wales have issued [a] joint statement.’
The Bar Council, 14th June 2022
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
‘The rules against discrimination and harassment by barristers need to be strengthened by removing the requirement that the actions be unlawful, two QCs have argued.’
Legal Futures, 14th June 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
