‘Celestine Greenwood, barrister of Exchange Chambers, offers a personal observation as to the extent that the family justice system adequately and properly serves our society.’
Family Law Week, 5th August 2021
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘The Bar Council recently met with the senior judiciary in a bid to ensure there are proper consequences for judges who bully barristers.’
Legal Futures, 6th August 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has today published research on consumers’ expectations and experience of working with barristers. As an evidence-based regulator acting to protect and promote the interests of consumers, this new research helps the BSB to gain an up-to-date understanding of what consumers expect from barristers and the findings here will inform the regulator’s work in many areas.’
Bar Standards Board, 4th August 2021
Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk
‘Almost 400 solicitors and barristers have signed an open letter to HM Courts & Tribunals Service, refusing to attend a ‘single court listing outside of regular court hours’. The Ministry of Justice responded today by denying the existence of any plan for weekend sittings.’
Law Society's Gazette, 5th August 2021
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The bar disciplinary tribunal has rejected calls for more lenient sanctions against barristers who commit sexual misconduct, saying that public trust in the profession must be maintained.’
Law Society's Gazette, 4th August 2021
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The Bar Tribunals & Adjudication Service (BTAS) has rejected the argument that a starting point of 12-months’ suspension for sexual misconduct is too much for some less serious types of behaviour.’
Legal Futures, 2nd August 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The government could face legal and strike action over its decision to resurrect extended court operating hours as part of the widely-trailled “Beating Crime Plan” unveiled today.’
Law Society's Gazette, 27th July 2021
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The proportion of barristers aged over 50 has tripled over the past 30 years, while the number of pupils has shrunk by almost 30%, research by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) has found.’
Legal Futures, 28th July 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Extended operating hours in the courts – bitterly opposed by the legal profession – have returned, at least for now, in the guise of “temporary operating arrangements” (TOA).’
Legal Futures, 27th July 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘With a history in the world of financial services regulation, “know your customer/client” or “KYC” is a cornerstone of professional practice. What does it mean for legal professionals? In this instalment of my series on defensive advising strategies, I consider three aspects of KYC which are particularly relevant to lawyers, with an emphasis on the interface between solicitors and other professionals and the barristers they instruct. This perspective is based on my own experience as a practitioner and raises issues which crop up relatively frequently.’
Wilberforce Chambers, 22nd July 2021
Source: www.wilberforce.co.uk
‘Discrimination is the “sole identifiable cause” for the paucity of Black barristers, particularly at QC level, a co-chair of the Bar Council’s race working group has argued.’
Legal Futures, 26th July 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The High Court has ruled that the Bar Standards Board (BSB) made “unjust and unsustainable” decisions in refusing a Bar student’s application for an exemption from the vocational element of his training.’
Legal Futures, 23rd July 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The current regulatory approach to lawyers’ ongoing competence needs to change, the Legal Services Board (LSB) has concluded, with assessments such as spot checks likely to be part of the reform.’
Legal Futures, 20th July 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘It is an “absolute scandal” that just 1% of judges are Black, the shadow Lord Chancellor has declared in the wake of figures that showed a decline in the number of solicitors on the bench too.’
Legal Futures, 16th July 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Bar Standards Board has today published the seventh and final annual edition of its statistical information relating to student performance on the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC). As the report has shown in previous years, training for the Bar remains highly competitive.’
Bar Standards Board, 15th July 2021
Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk
‘Latest diversity statistics show once again a judiciary dominated by barristers – with the number of non-barristers in post lower than it was in 2014.’
Law Society's Gazette, 15th July 2021
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is to use a new annual online declaration by panel barristers of any protected characteristics to analyse the proportionality of case allocation and fee payments within chambers.’
Legal Futures, 13th July 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A QC who misused the urgent applications procedure for a Brexit-related judicial review has been ticked off by the Divisional Court but escaped being referred to the Bar Standards Board (BSB).’
Legal Futures, 9th July 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Queen’s Counsel do not win significantly more cases than junior barristers when they are pitted against each other in court, research by a litigation analytics company has found.’
Law Society's Gazette, 9th July 2021
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Exclusive statistical analysis: Barbara Mills QC outlines how the deeply unhelpful, homogenous BAME acronym is masking the true extent and systemic nature of the Bar’s diversity problem.’
Counsel, July 2021
Source: www.counselmagazine.co.uk
