All The Bar articles – Page 20
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News‘We are at a pivotal point’: Bar Council adds voice to AGFS anger
Growing anger over revised fees scheme puts further pressure on government to increase its offer.
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News‘It’s breaking my heart’: Barristers say resumption of action ‘almost inevitable’
Criminal Bar Association says offer of investment is not ‘remotely enough’.
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NewsBarristers to face new standard of proof in disciplinary cases
Shifting to a civil standard could make it easier for the barristers’ regulator to bring sanctions.
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NewsPressure mounts for 'direct action’ over reformed fee scheme
Criminal barristers claim government’s £15m offer for legal aid advocacy is not sufficient.
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NewsBar considers responses on future of pupillage
Chambers and entities asked if they wish to continue providing the traditional pathway to qualification.
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NewsPunish guilty barristers more quickly, says bar regulator
Some tribunal cases are taking two years or more to conclude, BSB says.
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NewsBar keeps tabs on defaulting solicitors
The Bar Council confirmed this month it has added 13 firms to its list of defaulting solicitors
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NewsSir Louis Blom-Cooper QC dies at 92
Inspirational figure in campaign against death penalty and for prisoners' rights.
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'Don't swell the ranks with solicitors' - bar fights training reforms
Future Bar Training proposals would 'unacceptably dilute the high standards rightly required of practising barristers', Bar Council warns.
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NewsPublic access barristers face further price publishing requirements
Participants in Bar Standards Board pilot report business boost after posting prices online.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Giving human rights a voice
Lord Dyson’s trenchant lectures covering wide-ranging topics from Magna Carta to asset inequality between litigants in the modern world are drawn together into one volume.
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NewsJuniors lose out as MoJ proposes advocacy fee rise
Law Society says new rates will will worsen the recruitment crisis in legal aid work.
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NewsDBA regulations 'not fit for purpose' - bar
Ministry of Justice told that few barristers are willing to take the risk of not being able to recover their costs.
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News‘Robing room gossip’: Barrister who repeated false rape claim has suspension reduced
High Court finds bar tribunal’s original suspension was ‘manifestly excessive’.
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NewsSuspension for direct access barrister who failed to give unwelcome advice
Bar Tribunal & Adjudication Service announces finding against two practitioners.
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LSB to monitor advocacy standards as QASA is finally killed off
Oversight regulator approves application to remove QASA from BSB handbook.
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NewsBar accused of double standards after top QC hits out at solicitor-advocates
Scotland’s Faculty of Advocates is seeking a review of internal instructions by law firms.
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NewsDirect access serial offender finally gets permanent ban
Barrister Oliver White had been suspended multiple times.
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OpinionQC status: time to cut the silk?
Arguments over the application and appointment process miss the big question.