‘The chairman of the Bar Council has urged the Bar Standards Board (BSB) to let it lead work on improving equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in the profession.’
Legal Futures, 25th June 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A barrister and part-time immigration tribunal judge has been jailed for defrauding the Legal Aid Agency, along with other lawyers, by falsely claiming defence legal costs.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 21st June 2024
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
‘Being employed by companies or law firms can give barristers more protection when faced with ethical challenges than those in private practice, it has been suggested.’
Legal Futures, 19th June 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘On 21 May 2024, the Bar Standards Board (BSB) announced a rule change which establishes an expanded power to impose interim suspensions of barristers in specified cases. This is a practical and sensible update which brings barristers into line with most other regulated professions.’
Mountford Chambers, 29th May 2024
Source: www.mountfordchambers.com
‘Solicitor Harriet Harman KC has been named as chair of the Bar Council’s independent review of bullying and harassment, including sexual harassment, at the Bar.’
Legal Futures, 12th June 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Hertfordshire University can start taking Bar training course students from September again, after the Bar Standards Board reinstated its authorisation.’
Legal Futures, 12th June 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Lady Chief Justice has urged senior barristers to give their junior counsel chances to speak in court, both for their own development and the future diversity of the judiciary.’
Legal Futures, 10th June 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A recent pair of lawyers’ liability cases have looked at the issue of continuing duties and limitation in two contrasting circumstances: one where the solicitors realised that they had made an error and set about rectifying it, and one where the lawyers did not think that they had been negligent. The two factual scenarios led to diametrically opposed outcomes. Amanda Savage KC and Helen Evans KC examine these recent authorities and what they tell us about where the law is heading on both limitation and duty in lawyers’ claims.’
4 New Square, 3rd June 2024
Source: www.4newsquare.com
‘Court backlogs for rape prosecutions have soared to a record high, with the number of cases doubling in two years and victims facing “devastating” waits for justice.’
The Independent, 2nd June 2024
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Members of the Bar Standards Board (BSB) clashed with senior staff last week over how to deal with the large number of foreign lawyers seeking to be called in England and Wales but who do not intend to practise here.’
Legal Futures, 30th May 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Restricting the recovery of a barrister’s fees to work done while he held a practising certificate was not unfair, the High Court judge has ruled.’
Law Society's Gazette, 28th May 2024
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Following on from the publication of its Anti-Racist Statement in 2020, the BSB has now launched its Anti-Racist Strategy covering the period 2024-2027. This new Strategy sets our internal commitment to anti-racism in how the BSB operates with its people, outlining how we intend to lead by example by setting and meeting high standards in our own approach.’
Bar Standards Board, 22nd May 2024
Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk
‘Barristers do not want to see “progress on remote hearings rolled back” and almost half would like the number to be increased, a report by the Bar Council has found.’
Legal Futures, 21st May 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
The failure to increase the rates of pay for barristers handling government work since 1997 has created a “very high level of dissatisfaction and exasperation”.
Legal Futures, 17th May 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A barrister who wrote a book on sleepwalking and who fell asleep during a coroner’s inquest has been cleared of all professional misconduct charges.’
The Guardian, 15th May 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Bar is slowly addressing the barriers to attracting disabled talent, says Daniel Holt, but there are more ways chambers can authentically commit to disability inclusion.’
Counsel, May 2024
Source: www.counselmagazine.co.uk
‘A Court of Appeal judgment has given guidance to judges “facing difficulties arising out of non-attendance by trial counsel” after finding a district judge was wrong to stay proceedings over the lack of prosecuting counsel.’
Law Society's Gazette, 13th May 2024
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Pupillage providers using blind or contextual recruitment techniques have a higher proportion of male and White pupils than those who do not, research by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) has found.’
Legal Futures, 8th May 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has today published two reports on pupillage recruitment at the Bar. The objective of this research was to strengthen our evidence base around pupillage recruitment to inform the development of the BSB’s policies, including our forthcoming consultation on the Equality Rules.’
The Bar Standards Board, 2nd May 2024
Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk
‘Glaser v Atay [2023] EWHC 2539 (KB) is a significant decision in two respects. First, it is a vanishingly rare example of a superior court striking down a contractual term as unfair under Part 2 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015 (CRA). Second, the case contains interesting – and ultimately problematic – discussion of the effect of a term being unfair, an issue seldom explored in previous cases.’
Cambridge Law Journal, 3rd April 2024
Source: www.cambridge.org
