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• A Brief Guide to Using a Barrister (provided by the International Committee)                
• Acceptance of Instructions in Criminal Cases  
• Acting as a Commissioner for Oaths              
• Acting on Opposite Sides of within Chambers
• Advocates Graduated Fee Scheme Payment Protocol - Frequently Asked Questions (Revised)
• Age Discrimination - Guidance for Chambers 
• Attorney General: Equality and Diversity Expectations: FAQ’s   
• Attorney General: Equality and Diversity Expectations Statement for Civil and Criminal Panel Counsel and their Chambers   
• Attorney General: Equality and Diversity Expectations Statement: Template For First Progress Diversity Monitoring Letter   
• Attorney General: Equality and Diversity Expectations Statement: Template for Second and Subsequent Progress Reports 
• Application of the Practising Certificate Regulations (on BSB website) 
• Backup Work on Your PC - IT Panel Article 2008    
• Bar Handbook 2009           
• Barristers Acting under a Retainer and/or under other Novel Fee Arrangements (on BSB website)
• Barristers Attending Searches as Independent Counsel to Advise Upon Legal Professional Privilege
• Barristers who are also qualified as notaries (on BSB website)
• Becoming a Sole Practitioner (on BSB website)
• Best Practice Guide to Listing
• Business Continuity Management For Barristers’ Chambers  – IT Panel Article 2006 
• Careers Break - Things to Think About  
• Chambers’ Complaints Handling Procedures (on BSB website)
• Civil Fees: Guide to the Summary Assessment of Costs
• Client Incapacity 
• Commenting to the Media on Cases (on BSB website)
• Commission and payment by barristers for work (on BSB website)
• Commissioner for Oaths: FAQ's       
• Committals for Sentence
• Computation of Profits for Income Tax Purposes: Application of UITF 40 to Barristers’ Earnings
• Conditional Fee Agreement Work on Public Access
• Conditional Fee Arrangements - Guidance for Barristers Appearing Before a Fee Paid Judge who is a Current Member of their Chambers   
• Conditional Fee Guidance 
• Conducting Two Cases in Court Simultaneously  
• Confiscation in Graduated Cases: Fees  
• Confiscation in Graduated Fee Cases: Protocol for Counsel     
• Coping with Word 2007 - Part 1: Getting Started - IT Panel Article May 2009   
• Coping with Word 2007 – Part 2: Drafting for Counsel - IT Panel Article: June 2009 
• Copyright Guidelines 
• Copyright Status of Court Judgments
• Counsel’s Fee notes  
• Court of Appeal Judgement in R v Ulcay & Toygun [2007] EWCA Crim 2379
• Court Appointed Legal Representatives      
• CPS: Equality and Diversity Expectations Statement FAQs 
• CPS: Equality and Diversity Expectations Statement for the Bar 
• CPS: Equality and Diversity Expectations Statement : Template for First Progress Reports 
• CPS: Equality and Diversity Expectations Statement : Template for Second and Subsequent Progress Reports 
• Criminal Bar Association Papers (on CBA website)   
• Criminal Defence Service (Funding) Order 2007      
• Criticism of Former Counsel in Criminal Cases 
• Data Protection Act 1998: Procuring Disclosure of Personal Data  
• Data Protection Notification – the Obligation to Register 
• Describing a former member of Chambers who has now become a member of the Judiciary (on BSB website) 
• Disability Action Plan Chart 2009-10        
• Disability Equality Scheme for the Bar
• Disciplinary Cover
• Disclosure of Unhelpful Material Disclosed to Counsel in Family Proceedings  
• Discussion of Fees by Clerks and The Enterprise Act
• Door Tenants and Associate Members of Chambers (on BSB website)  
• Duty of Confidentiality when previous Instructing Solicitors are sued       
• Duty to Disclose Previous Convictions (on BSB Website) 
• Electoral and other Publicity Material
• Email Guidelines
• Email Security, Websites and the Use of the Internet
• Employed Barristers – Entitlement to Exercise Rights of Audience 
• Entertainment of Solicitors by Barristers (on BSB website) 
• Equality and Diversity Code for the Bar (on BSB website)
• Ethnic Classifications  
• Failure to draft Defence Statements and Skeleton Arguments 
• Farquharson Guidelines  
• Fast-Track Trial Fees 
• Fee Sharing and CFAs  
• Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Guidance on Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing
• Framework of Principles for Prosecution Advocates in the Crown Court
• Fraudulent Emails involving Chambers or Members of Chambers 
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) 
• Giving an Undertaking: FAQs    
• Graduated Fee Payment Protocol 
• Graduated Fee Scheme Manual for Guidance        
• Guidance for Employed Barristers    
• HMRC support available for those having difficulty meeting their tax liabilities
• Holding back cheques for barristers who have left Chambers  
• Holding out as a barrister (on BSB website)    
• Holding Out - Guidance for BVC Students and those Recently Called to the Bar
• ID Cards For All Lawyers - IT Panel Article 2008 
• Identification Obligations in Public and Licensed Access Work   
• Illegally Obtained Evidence in Civil and Family Proceedings 
• Improper Fee Arrangements    
• Industrial Action 
• Insolvency: FAQs                   
• Disability Equality Scheme for the Bar 
• Interim Guidance in Connection with Criminal Cases and Pleas and Case Management Hearings  
• Issuing Fee Notes to Lay Clients 
• Issuing of documents in Court by a barrister (on BSB website) 
• Joint Tribunal Standing Orders for Fee Disputes 
• Jury Service 
• Knowledge Management – the Future use of Counsel’s Opinion by Solicitors and other Intermediaries (on BSB website) 
• Lawyers and 'Identity' Cards - IT Panel Article: July 2009
• Leaving chambers – Obligations on Chambers and the Departing Barrister (on BSB website) 
• Legal Aid Guidelines  
• Legal Aid Taxation in the Court of Appeal and House of Lords  
• Legal Services Act 2007
• Licensed Access – General and Introductory 
• Licensed Access Guidance - Handbook for Chambers          
• Licensed Access Guidance - Handbook for Clients    
• Limiting indemnity insurance liability (on BSB website)      
• Making Chambers Accessible
• Maternity/Paternity/Parental Leave Policies: Things to Think About 
• Means Testing in Magistrates Court 
• Money Laundering Regulations 2007  
• Myths Surrounding Appointment to the Attorney General’s Civil Panels 
• National Taxing Team Graduated Fee Scheme Guidance  
• Non-practising Barristers – the 2006 rules (on BSB website) 
• Non-practising Barristers and the OISC     
• Panel of Disabilities Advisers with Specialist Knowledge
• Payment for Written Advice on Appeal 
• Payments in Personal Injury Cases 
• Permissibility of Barristers signing CDS 14 
• Pleading Fraud (on BSB website) 
• Positive Action Guidance   
• Practical Tips For On-Line Arbitration And Mediation  – IT Panel Article 2006 
• Practice Management Guidelines 
• Practice Note: Harvey Shopfitters Limited v Adi Limited 
• Preparation for PCMH Hearings 
• Preparation of Defence Case Statements (on BSB website) 
• Preparation of witness statements (on BSB website)  
• President of Family Division’s Guidance on McKenzie Friends  
• Procedure in the Court of Appeal Criminal Division 
• Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 - Guidance  
• Professional Conduct and Discipline of the Legal Profession (A Guide provided by the International Committee)  
• Public Access Guidance for Barristers  
• Public Access: Guidance for Lay Clients  
• Public Access: Guidance for Clerks    
• Public Equality Duties  
• Public Interest Immunity (PII) Hearings 
• Recovery of Costs in Non-Solicitor Cases 
• Refusing Work in Criminal Cases and in Respect of Plea and Case Management Hearings (on BSB website)  
• Refusing Work - Guidance to Members of the Criminal Bar    
• Reporting of Professional Misconduct of Barristers by Members of the Bar (on BSB website) 
• Representation of Children in Care Proceedings 
• Retainers and Novel Fee Agreements  
• Revised Advocates' Graduated Fee Scheme: Section 51 & Bail Hearings
• Revised Guidance on Court Dress    
• Revised Protocol for Payment of Fees in the Magistrates’ Courts 
• Rights of Audience Tool    
• Rights to Conduct Litigation Tool         
• Rights to Conduct Litigation in the Employed Bar 
• Responding to Potentially Discriminatory Instructions - Guidance for Chambers  
• Role of Barrister in Non-Solicitor Cases 
• Secure Email 
• Service Standard On Returned Briefs Agreed With The CPS   
• Service Standard on Timely Claim and Payment of Prosecution Fees
• Smoking Ban Guidance 
• Some Myths about the QC Selection System 2008    
• Some Security Issues – IT Panel Article 2007 
• Special Measures Guidance from the Professional Practice Committee 
• Standard Rate VAT Increase: 1 January 2010               
• Statute Law Resources Available Online – IT Panel Article 2007 (updated March 2009) 
• Subject Access Requests under the Data Protection Act   
• Taxation And Retirement Benefits Handbook  
• Tracking Changes in Word Documents  – IT Panel Article 2006 
• Undeeming of Criminal Graduated Fees (on BSB website)  
• VHCC Best Value Panel Guidance 
• VHCC Guidance 
• VHCCs: Joint Bar Council and Legal Services Commission (LSC) Conduct Protocol for Non-Panel Advocates              
• VHCCs - Obligations Under the Code of Conduct 
• VHCCs: Payment Protocol for Non-Panel Advocates 
• VHCC Scheme from July 2010            
• Wasted Costs Orders 
• Witness Preparation (on BSB website)  
  
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