All The Bar articles – Page 49

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    BSB gives go ahead for barristers to sue solicitors over fees

    2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

    The Bar Standards Board has given the green light for the introduction of standard contractual terms that will enable barristers to sue solicitors for unpaid fees.

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    Barristers starting to take advantage of reforms

    2010-04-15T00:00:00Z

    Barristers have started to make use of changes to their practice rules that allow them to operate in new business models.On 1 April the Legal Services Board approved changes to the bar’s code of conduct to enable barristers to practise together in partnership or to become partners in legal disciplinary ...

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    Barristers to form ‘procurement companies’ for block contracts

    2009-09-24T00:00:00Z

    A Bar Council taskforce has put forward proposals for barristers or groups of chambers to form procurement companies to contract as a block for publicly funded advocacy work. The structure would give barristers greater power in negotiating contracts and allow the bar to take advantage of the practice changes permitted ...

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    Solicitors more trusted than barristers

    2009-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Solicitors are the most trusted of the white-collar professions, according to a survey carried out for the Bar Standards Board (BSB).

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    Review: The Barristers

    2008-11-13T00:00:00Z

    The BarristersBBC2, 9pm, 14 NovemberThe Open University, BBC Three years ago the BBC thought it would be a good idea to make a solicitor’s office the subject of a fly-on-the-wall documentary. No Win, No Fee portrayed the colourful personal injury practice at Manchester firm Amelans. This year it’s the turn ...

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    Maggie Maggie Maggie! In in in!

    1998-06-28T00:00:00Z

    The last time I was in the same room as Margaret Thatcher, several hundred Japanese businessmen were there, too. It was Tokyo, September 1989, the high noon of Japan's economic power. World leaders were passing through every week to pay homage to the yen, but prime minister Thatcher was different. ...

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    LETR: business as usual for the bar as report rejects common training

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    Training for barristers and solicitors is almost certain to remain separate following the Legal Education and Training Review’s rejection of the idea of a common professional course.