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Sexual harassment and discrimination is still happening at the Bar, a survey of women barristers carried out by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) has found. The BSB surveyed some 1,300 female barristers – almost a quarter of women working at the Bar. ... read more
July 29th, 2016
More than 1,000 barristers have signed a letter to the prime minister urging him to allow parliament to decide whether the UK should leave the European Union. In the letter, they say the referendum result is only advisory because it is based on “misrepresentations of fact and promises that could... ... read more
July 13th, 2016
A month after the Court of Appeal upheld a challenge to the government’s changes to legal aid for victims of domestic violence, the Ministry of Justice has announced it is more than doubling the original time limit for evidence, according to the Law Society Gazette. ... read more
April 25th, 2016
MPs, councillors and civil servants suspected of corruption are to be targeted by a new law proposed by the home secretary, Theresa May, who intends to establish an offence of "illicit enrichment" for cases where a public official's assets have increased significantly without satisfactory... ... read more
April 25th, 2016
A number of scientists are collaborating to help teach senior judges about dealing with scientific evidence in court. The training is part of a scheme announced by the Royal Society and Royal Society of Edinburgh. ... read more
April 12th, 2016
Chantal-Aimée Doerries QC, the new chair of the Bar Council, has said that students thinking of qualifying as a barrister will have to spend up to £127,000. ... read more
February 24th, 2016
The Criminal Bar Association (CBA) has welcomed moves by solicitors to call off their strike action. Criminal practitioner solicitors had been protesting at proposed government cuts to legal aid since the beginning of July. ... read more
August 24th, 2015
Brian Lee, Chairman of the Institute of Barristers’ Clerks talks to myBarrister.
These are difficult times facing the Bar, aren’t they? ... read more
July 28th, 2015
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