All The Bar articles – Page 33
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NewsCourt of Appeal ruling boosts bar’s direct access scheme
Bar Council said the victory shows that direct access can be an ‘effective means for resolving disputes’.
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Opinion
Bar dissenter
We do not share the opinion that solicitors repeatedly ‘provide poor-quality work and fail to deliver the appropriate level of care’.
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NewsCall for ban on solicitors’ agents in public hearings
The Ministry of Justice has been asked to resolve an ambiguity over solicitors’ agents’ rights of audience.
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NewsBar dominates Gove’s new advisory council
Law Society 'very disappointed' by composition of new thinktank chaired by Gary Bell QC, which it says is 'unrepresentative' and lacking 'day-to-day experience of routine criminal practice'.
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News‘Legalizer’ to chair Michael Gove’s criminal justice council
When he scrapped dual contracting in January, the lord chancellor pledged to establish a new advisory council of solicitors and barristers to tackle waste and ‘abuses’ in legal aid provision.
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NewsImmigration bar slams solicitors over ‘poor’ standards
‘Unanimous and strong’ opinion of immigration chambers is that clients experience poor standards of service.
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NewsBar regulator clears penultimate hurdle to licensing ABSs
Subject to the lord chancellor’s rubber stamp, the Bar Standards Board will be able to regulate non-lawyer-owned legal firms.
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News
Barrister disbarred after lying to judge about PC
Katrina McCarthy told a district judge that she had been instructed by a solicitors’ firm.
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NewsRegulator in danger of ‘eroding confidence’ in the bar
Bar Standards Board suggests that growing commercial pressures could tempt barristers to take risks that harm consumers.
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NewsJust one-third of £18,000 bar course graduates get pupillage
Future of Bar Professional Training Course is under review as statistics show only a minority take the next step to becoming a barrister.
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News
Barrister suspended for 14 months
A barrister has been suspended for 14 months for trying to conceal from his chambers that he had taken on public access work without being authorised to do so. Dominic Brazil had claimed he was acting pro bono in family cases.
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NewsPublic access work set to grow, bar predicts
But barristers wary of tensions with solicitors if the bar markets public access work more widely.
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NewsBriscoe disbarred for role in Huhne speeding points scandal
Former judge was convicted in May 2014 for perverting the course of justice after she lied to the police.
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NewsChambers model questioned as commercial sets merge
Three Stone Chambers to offer 'low-cost model' based on 'traditional clerking'.
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NewsCommercial pressures could lower quality, bar regulator warns
Pressure to win business could lead barristers to compromise ethical principles, according to the BSB.
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NewsBar ‘entity’ model points to ‘fused’ profession
Owners of two of the latest BSB-regulated entities claim the two branches of the profession are slowly converging.
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News‘Tribal’ culture eroding faith in legal process – bar regulator
The complex language used at the bar can leave clients struggling, Bar Standards Board report says.
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NewsBar regulator approved to license ABSs
The BSB could start approving alternative business structures from October – more than two years after it had originally intended.
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NewsTurkish lawyers’ arrest breaks UN principles
Bar bodies add their voices to outrage over police attack on lawyers.
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NewsBar warns against ‘lawyerless’ online court
Briggs LJ’s blueprint would entrench a two-tier justice system, the Bar Council claims.