‘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
‘Minority ethnic barristers remain more likely than their White counterparts to be subject to complaints raised by the Bar Standards Board (BSB), new research has shown.’
Legal Futures, 7th July 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Legal Services Board has published a withering review of the bar’s regulator, saying it places the interests of barristers ahead of the public and appears to be failing in its duty to improve access to justice.’
Law Society's Gazette, 1st July 2021
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The Bar Council has encouraged barristers to speak up about judicial bullying, following an anecdotal rise in judges making lawyers cry in court. The representative body is due to meet with the judiciary’s equality and diversity lead this week to discuss the types of incidents involving judges that get reported and the impact they have on barristers.’
Law Society's Gazette, 2nd July 2021
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Lawyers should have to take online tests every 10 years to prove that they remain competent in their specialist fields, Sarah Chambers, chair of the Legal Services Consumer Panel (LSCP), said yesterday.’
Legal Futures, 30th June 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A collective submission made by special advocates (security-cleared barristers who appear in secret proceedings) has been cleared for publication. This document is a response to the review being performed by Sir Duncan Ouseley, looking into the operation of closed material procedures (CMPs) under the Justice and Security Act 2013. It gives an unprecedented insight into the workings and challenges of these procedures, which enable the State to rely on secret material not shown to the other side in court proceedings.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 27th June 2021
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘A barrister has spoken about her “really positive” recent experiences of courts accommodating “the practicalities and balancing acts being carried out by those with children”.’
Legal Futures, 24th June 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
