‘Barristers who act in cases affecting public bodies are well represented among the 107 new Queen’s Counsel announced in this year’s silk round.’
Local Government Lawyer, 11th January 2016
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Criminal barristers who agree to work for law firms “for no fee” could be breaching the referral fee ban, the Bar Council has warned.’
Legal Futures, 7th January 2016
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The fee income of Crown Court legal aid barristers from the Advocated Graduated Fee Scheme (AGFS) has fallen by 8% in the last two years, new figures have shown.’
Legal Futures, 18th December 2015
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A pupil barrister who dishonestly copied his skeleton argument for a moot has been reprimanded and fined £1,000 by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) – the strongest penalty meted out directly by the regulator this year.’
Legal Futures, 16th December 2015
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Bar Standard Board (BSB) expects to regulate just 20 alternative business structures (ABS) each year in the first three years after it becomes a licensing authority.’
Legal Futures, 15th December 2015
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The fees and charges for a number of regulatory activities and Alternative Business Structures (ABSs) are the focus of two separate consultations the regulator has launched today.’
Bar Standards Board, 10th December 2015
Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk
‘The current arrangements for the regulation of barristers are “relatively cost-efficient” and there is no need to make the Bar Standards Board (BSB) fully independent, the incoming chairman of the Bar Council has said.’
Legal Futures, 9th December 2015
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘There is no problem with ethnic diversity on the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC), new figures have revealed, with the number of students from Asian backgrounds increasing in recent years to the point where it almost equals the number of white students.’
Legal Futures, 2nd December 2015
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Government will consult by Spring 2016 on making legal services regulators independent from their representative bodies, ministers have said. The Treasury and the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills said in a 25-page paper, A better deal: boosting competition to bring down bills for families and firms, said the consultation would also cover the removal of barriers so that it becomes easier for alternative business structures, such as supermarkets and estate agents, to offer legal services like conveyancing, probate and litigation in England and Wales.’
Local Government Lawyer, 30th November 2015
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has three announcements to make about the BPTC today. First, today the regulator is publishing statistics about students and providers of the BPTC. Second, there will be changes to the formats of the centralised assessments. Third, the Bar Course Aptitude Test (BCAT), which is an entry requirement, will be deferred until at least March 2016, pending completion of a review.’
Bar Standards Board, 1st December 2015
Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk
‘The Bar Council has urged all inducements, not just referral fees, between advocates and litigators be outlawed in its response to the Ministry of Justice’s consultation Preserving and Enhancing the Quality of Criminal Advocacy.’
The Bar Council, 27th November 2015
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
‘Chairman of the Bar Council Alistair MacDonald QC said: “Investment to modernise courts and tribunals is vital to the successful reform of our criminal justice system and today’s Ministry of Justice settlement safeguards the £700 million announced earlier this year.”‘
The Bar Council, 26th November 2015
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
‘A barrister who admitted that he had talked to jurors at Basildon Railway Station after a trial has been reprimanded and fined £300 by a Bar disciplinary tribunal.’
Legal Futures, 25th November 2015
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Bar Council and the Association of British Insurers (ABI) have added their voices to calls from business organisations for a permanent exemption for insolvency cases from the provisions of LASPO.’
Litigation Futures, 23rd November 2015
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Abolishing the status of QC should now be seriously considered in the light of research that shows male Oxbridge-educated junior barristers from London-based chambers are still far more likely to take silk, according to a new study by the London School of Economics and Political Science.’
Legal Futures, 24th November 2015
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Lord Chancellor Michael Gove indicated yesterday that he would support legislative changes to make it easier to approve and regulate alternative business structures (ABSs) while the scope of the wider review of the Legal Services Act 2007 is worked out.’
Legal Futures, 19th November 2015
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Guidelines for civil panel counsel, revised to include the new government security classifications.’
Attorney General’s Office, 18th November 2015
Source: www.gov.uk/ago
‘The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, held his annual press conference on Tuesday, 17 November, 2015, at the Royal Courts of Justice.’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, 17th November 2015
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
‘Chairman of the Bar Alistair MacDonald QC said:”The Bar Council has always opposed the two-tier scheme and has consistently asked the Ministry of Justice and the Legal Aid Agency to re-consider these plans. We therefore welcome today’s decision to postpone the implementation of the scheme in the light of the legal challenges which have been brought.”‘
The Bar Council. 13th November 2015
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
‘Is the cab rank rule still in operation, asks Jon Robins.’
New Law Journal, 13th November 2015
Source: www.newlawjournal.co.uk
