“The Bar Council’s BARCO initiative, which will allow barristers to handle all client money for the first time, has been given the green light by the Financial Services Authority (FSA).”
Legal Week, 10th January 2013
Source: www.legalweek.com
“Download the FLBA Response to the Law Commission Consultation on Matrimonial Property, Needs and Agreements.”
Family Law Bar Association, 7th January 2013
Source: www.flba.co.uk
“A leading barrister who sued after falling head first down stairs in an exclusive wine bar following a party has won a ‘substantial’ payout after settling his multi-million-pound claim.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th December 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Only a handful of the 15,000-plus members of the Bar have disclosed information such as whether they went to public or state schools, in a snub to the chairs of the Bar and the Bar Standards Board (BSB) who had personally requested it.”
Legal Futures, 17th December 2012
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
“Engaged and in control: Chairman-Elect Maura McGowan QC’s inaugural speech to Bar Council, delivered on 10 December 2012.”
The Bar Council, 12th December 2012
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
“Maura McGowan QC, the incoming Chairman of the Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, will this evening deliver her inaugural address at the Bar Council’s offices, in which she will set out a vision for a profession which is engaged and in control of its future.”
The Bar Council, 10th December 2012
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
Related link: Engaged and in Control (PDF)
“The BSB is undertaking a ‘progress check’ with a sample of 40 chambers to commence in February 2013. This to understand the extent to which the profession is engaging with the new equality and diversity rules and to identify any areas of challenge for individuals and chambers.”
Bar Standards Board, 3rd December 2012
Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk
“The Treasurer is inviting the practising Bar to review the Bar Council’s Budget Proposals for 2013/14 and the associated ramifications for the Practising Certificate Fee (PCF). Individuals, chambers, employers, SBAs, Circuits and Bar Council committees are all urged to take this opportunity to comment on the proposals.”
The Bar Council, 30th November 2012
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
“Barristers will be forced to take strike action for the first time if the Government pushes ahead with its proposed reform of the legal aid system, the new head of the Criminal Bar Association has said.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st December 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has expressed regret and disappointment at the problems uncovered in the Inns of Court’s administration of disciplinary tribunals – and opened up a turf war over the role of the new tribunals service that is being set up as a result.”
Legal Futures, 28th November 2012
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
“The discussion with Toby Craig covered a number of controversial issues which members of the Bar have expressed concern to me about.”
Charon QC, 22nd November 2012
Source: www.charonqc.wordpress.com
“Charon QC” is the blogging pseudonym of Mike Semple Piggot, editor of insitelaw newswire.
“Report shows fewer BME pupils, majority are from professional backgrounds and 22.5% have no debt.”
The Guardian, 21st November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Legal Week’s editor in chief Alex Novarese argues that the Bar should ditch the dogma and focus on its past to reposition chambers as tightly focused providers of top-quality legal services.”
Legal Week, 16th November 2012
Source: www.legalweek.com
“The Jackson reforms will heighten potential conflicts of interest where barristers are dealing directly with the public, experts at the bar conference warned last week.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 15th November 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Update for the profession: on 31 January 2013, the commonly used Terms of Work and Withdrawal of Credit Scheme will be abolished and new contractual terms, with attendant Cab Rank Rule changes, will be introduced.”
The Bar Council, 14th November 2012
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
“The Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, today [14 November] joins the Personal Injuries Bar Association (PIBA) to call on Peers to hold the Government to account on plans to restrict severely access to justice for injured workers, ahead of the House of Lords’ Second Reading of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill.”
The Bar Council, 14th November 2012
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
Speech to Annual Bar Conference 2012: Fight for your future or be lost forever (PDF)
Michael Todd QC, Chairman of the Bar
27th Annual Bar Conference Speech, 10th November 2012
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
“The Bar Council and the Bar Standards Board have published their second annual Bar Barometer report. The report details trends in the demographic profile of the Bar between 2007 and 2011/12.”
Bar Barometer (PDF)
The Bar Council, 12th November 2012
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
Speech at Bar Council Conference 2012 (PDF)
Lady Justice Rafferty
Bar Council Conference 2012
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“Michael Todd QC, Chairman of the Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, will today tell delegates at the Bar’s 27th Annual Conference, The Modern Bar – Accessible, Adaptable and Relevant, that it must fight to shape its own future or be lost forever.”
The Bar Council, 10th November 2012
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
