‘Allowing a claimant’s barrister to recover a trial advocacy fee in a fast-track personal injury case, settled on the morning of the hearing, “hardly amounts to a windfall”, a High Court judge has said.’
Litigation Futures, 3rd May 2016
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘The protection of consumers “has to be paramount” when it comes to unregulated, uninsured and untrained McKenzie Friends charging fees to people in court, the Chairman of the Bar, Chantal-Aimee Doerries QC, told BBC listeners.’
The Bar Council, 28th April 2016
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
‘Plans put forward by the Ministry of Justice yesterday to increase fees for those seeking justice through the Immigration and Asylum tribunal system by 500% is yet another step towards putting access to justice beyond the means of those who most need it, warns the Bar Council.’
The Bar Council, 28th April 2016
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
‘Direct access barristers are no substitute for experienced solicitors, a judge has told a court, ruling that a woman was not advised on the proper process for appealing her council tax liability. ‘
Law Society’s Gazette, 24th April 2016
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Public access barristers are expecting the volume of work obtained directly from clients to increase over the next few years as a result of the public access scheme which allows consumers to use barristers directly, without needing to instruct a solicitor or other intermediary.’
Bar Standards Board, 19th April 2016
Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk
‘The written advocacy of continental European lawyers makes for “boring” court proceedings, according to the President of the Supreme Court.’
Legal Futures, 19th April 2016
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘One of Britain’s most high-profile legal figures, Constance Briscoe, must be disbarred as a barrister after being jailed for lying to police during the Chris Huhne speeding scandal, a tribunal has said.’
The Guardian, 15th April 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A new CPD regime for barristers on the Established Practitioner Programme will be in place from January 2017.’
Bar Standards Board, 14th April 2016
Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk
‘Since Shared Parental Leave (SPL) came into force a year ago on 5 April 2015, I have written, lectured and advised widely about this new legal entitlement. The people I have not engaged with much about SPL are barristers – for the key reason that as self-employed professionals rather than employees, they are excluded from this legal entitlement.’
Cloisters, 7th April 2016
Source: www.cloisters.com
‘A direct access service providing the public and businesses with fixed-fee unbundled access to barristers, claims to have doubled its turnover in each of the last two years and expects to grow next year.’
Legal Futures, 14th April 2016
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A group of public access barristers have formed a partnership with a debt solutions company to provide debtors with fixed-fee court representation that they could otherwise not afford.’
Legal Futures, 12th April 2016
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘British justice costs the tax-payer less than €2 per week or ‘the price of one cup of coffee’, claimed the chairman of the Bar Council giving evidence to Labour’s legal aid commission. Chantal-Aimée Doerries took issue with the government’s oft-repeated assertion that the UK’s expenditure on legal aid per capita was ‘more generous than any other EU nation or comparable common law jurisdiction’. ‘Every justice system has different cost drivers and looking simply at legal aid in isolation we would suggest is unhelpful,’ she told the commission. ‘
Legal Voice, 12th April 2016
Source: www.legalvoice.org.uk
‘The Bar Standards Board is to investigate whether male barristers with new-born children should be entitled to a form of shared parental leave (SPL), with the Bar Council calling for provisions which would give them a rent rebate from their chambers while not working.’
Legal Futures, 12th April 2016
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Rachel Crasnow QC, who practises in employment law at Cloisters chambers and is the Chair of the Bar Council Legislation & Guidance Panel, looks at why Shared Parental Leave, which came into force a year ago, could be relevant to barristers and why it shouldn’t be ignored by the Bar.’
The Bar Council, 7th April 2016
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
‘The BSB is today publishing three documents about its approach to risk-based regulation.’
Bar Standards Board, 5th April 2016
Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk
‘Commercial pressures on barristers are causing high risk behaviours that are detectable in complaints received by the Bar Standards Board (BSB), an assessment of future regulatory dangers has revealed.’
Legal Futures, 6th April 2016
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Barristers have a vital role in helping clients and witnesses understand the legal system but their own “distinct and tribal culture” is a barrier to doing so, a Bar Standards Board (BSB) report has found.’
Legal Futures, 4th April 2016
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The High Court has rejected a bid by a would-be barrister to lift a decade-old declaration that she was a vexatious litigant, which she said was harming her prospects of becoming a lawyer.’
Legal Futures, 4th April 2016
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The barrister and human rights campaigner Martha Spurrier is to succeed Shami Chakrabarti as the director of Liberty.
The Guardian, 31st March 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘In 2015, the BSB authorised BPP Professional Education to deliver an online Forensic Accounting course to pupils and new practitioners following a review of the face-to-face two day mandatory course.’
Bar Standards Board, 29th March 2016
Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk
