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Bar Council media briefing: MoJ statistics

Bar Council media briefing Thursday 28 March 2024 Ministry...

The Bar Standards Board publishes our 2024-2025 Business Plan

The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has today...

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Looking Beyond The Picture: How To Trust Video Evidence

By David Spreadborough, Certified Forensic Video Analyst I last wrote here for the Easter term of The Barrister in 2018 and honestly, where has the time gone? Considering all the troubles over the last two years though, it is not...

The Power of Patterns in Forensics

By Professor Angela Gallop CBE, Group CEO at Forensic Access Ltd  Patterns can change the...

As with most things, the cheapest option is not always the best

Price is currently the main deciding factor for the instruction of an expert witness...

The Bar Standards Board issues a consultation on the regulation of barristers in chambers

The BSB has today issued a consultation document seeking views on our regulatory expectations of chambers. This document reflects a series of roundtables with members of chambers and...

Exchange Chambers sees significant growth to the Family Team in Manchester

Exchange Chambers is delighted to announce the arrival of three new specialist family practitioners as part of its expansion of the family team in...

BSB Publishes the Independent Decision-making Body Annual Report 2022/23

 The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has today published the latest Independent Decision-making Body Annual Report for the year ending 31 March 2023. This is the fourth Annual...

Louis Browne KC acts for Wrexham Borough Council under Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014

 In an important local government case, Louis Browne KC from Exchange Chambers has acted for Wrexham Borough Council to recover non-payment of care home...

BSB publishes new guidance on barristers’ conduct in non-professional life and on social media

 Following the conclusion of the Bar Standards Board’s (BSB) consultation on conduct in non-professional life, the BSB Board has approved new guidance which we are...

Bar Council announces new contextual recruitment tool to boost social mobility at the Bar

The Bar Council is boosting its commitment to social mobility at the Bar with the introduction of a contextual recruitment tool to the Pupillage...

Chair of the Bar calls for change to timing of Call in future-gazing speech

Chair of the Bar Nick Vineall KC has called on the profession to call people to the Bar only when they have completed pupillage....

Fixed recoverable costs: Bar Council insists on pay for work done

The Bar Council has submitted a strong response to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) consultation on fixed recoverable costs calling for the system to...

3- Silk solutions from St Johns Building for arbitration

James Roberts KC joins St John’s Buildings as a Door Tenant He joins Sally Harrison KC and Samantha Hillas KC as leading Silks...

Legal community gravely concerned: joint statement from the Bar Council and Law Society

In today's Guardian, immigration solicitor Jacqueline McKenzie has written about her experience earlier this week when Conservative Central headquarters shared a dossier of information about...

Bar training students: additional re-sits pilot at BPP

We are exploring the possibility of enabling students who commenced their Bar training from September 2020 onwards to take further re-sits of the elements...

BSB appoints new Vice-Chair of Independent Decision-making Body  

The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has today announced the appointment of Kevin Gould as the new Vice-Chair of the Independent Decision-making Body (IDB). The Independent Decision-making...

BSB publishes its Annual Report for 2022-23

 The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has published its Annual Report for the 2022-23 business year, providing a summary of the BSB’s activities during the...

Top financial crime lawyer says Farage comments on money laundering laws raise important point

Commenting on Nigel Farage's comments today on money laundering laws being a "sledgehammer that misses the nut", John Binns, a partner and financial crime...

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