‘The problem of male judges bullying female barristers in court has been exaggerated, the Lord Chief Justice suggested yesterday.’
Legal Futures, 4th April 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A fraudster who posed as a barrister after tricking a London set into giving him pupillage has been jailed for 27 months.’
Legal Futures, 3rd April 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Asian woman barrister who was disinstructed after her client wanted a white man to represent her has said she does not blame the solicitor involved.’
Legal Futures, 2nd April 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has today published a new edition of its Handbook which sees new Bar qualification rules come into force.’
Bar Standards Board, 1st April 2019
Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk
‘The Bar Standards Board (BSB) last night signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Inns of Court. It recognises the vital role that the Inns will continue to have in the education, training and qualification of barristers in England and Wales when new Bar qualification rules go live next week.’
Bar Standards Board, 28th March 2019
Source: www.barstandardsboard.org
‘A barrister who failed to tell a client that he was withdrawing from their case before the Court of Appeal has effectively been suspended for three years.’
Legal Futures, 27th March 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The first chambers to use a recruitment system which provides ‘contextual’ information to improve diversity is not “virtue signalling”, the head of its pupillage committee has said.’
Legal Futures, 27th March 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Barrister Barbara Hewson was accused by The Times and MailOnline of making death threats to a law student and subjecting him to “repeated acts of harassment and online bullying”, the High Court has held.’
Legal Futures, 26th March 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Legal Services Board (LSB) has given both the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and Bar Standards Board (BSB) a clean bill of health in the way they enforce their rules.’
Legal Futures, 25th March 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A senior male barrister found to have engaged in “unwanted sexual conduct” towards a woman has been reprimanded and fined £3,000 by a Bar disciplinary tribunal.’
Legal Futures, 18th March 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The SDT’s “highest of expectations” and the regulator’s desire for a ‘gold standard’ mean solicitors appear to be treated more harshly than barristers and other professionals in disciplinary cases.’
Law Society's Gazette, 18th March 2019
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Amid outcries over casual sexism and sexual harassment in the legal profession, junior lawyers share their experiences.’
The Guardian, 14th March 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Rosalind English interviews Jacob Turner, barrister and author of a thoroughgoing analysis of the law and its capacity for operating in a world where computers are taking over all the transactions. Is Artificial Intelligence an entirely new legal phenomenon?’
Law Pod UK, 4th March 2019
Source: audioboom.com
‘The Legal Services Board (LSB) has approved the new training regime for barristers that will open up four routes to qualification, including an apprenticeship.’
Legal Futures, 1st March 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Allowing a City law firm and QC to rely on ‘without prejudice’ communications to defend allegations of professional negligence could “undermine the policy of encouraging parties to settle disputes”, the High Court has ruled.’
Legal Futures, 4th March 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Oversight regulator the Legal Services Board (LSB) has approved the Bar Standards Board’s (BSB) proposals for changing the training regime for aspiring barristers, which includes reforms to pupillage but retains the roll of the Inns of Court.’
Law Society's Gazette, 28th February 2019
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Criminal law barristers cannot go on without “sensible parameters” for sitting hours and overnight working and will take action if the judiciary does not, the head of their representative body said yesterday.’
Legal Futures, 26th February 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Bar Council has called on barristers to take action over bullying by judges that they experience or witness, and is looking at a new approach to overcome reluctance to report incidents.’
Legal Futures, 25th February 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Support for diversity initiatives has to come from the upper levels of the barristers’ profession, with a top QC warning of a “teststerone overdose” in the wake of a young female advocate accusing some men of “behaving as though they are on a stag do” when working with women.’
Legal Futures, 22nd February 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A female barrister has told her male colleagues to stop making “jokes about breasts and skirts” in a series of scathing tweets about sexism in the courtroom.’
Daily Telegraph, 13th February 2019
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
