2011

19 September 2011 - The Community Legal Service (Funding) (Amendment No. 2) Order 2011 and the Criminal Defence Service (Funding) (Amendment) Order 2011 were laid on 24 August 2011.

19 September 2011 - The Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, has announced plans to offer family mediation training to barristers in collaboration with ADR Group, via its Member Services department.

17 September 2011 - The Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, and the Family Law Bar Association (FLBA), which represents family barristers, will host a national meeting of the family Bar later today to warn of the effects of the Government’s intended justice cuts.

16 September 2011 - The Chairman of the Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, will welcome and highlight the growing opportunities for international legal work, but also warn of the threats posed by legal aid cuts during the forthcoming Liberal Democrat Party Conference.

16 September 2011 - The Bar Council, led by Chairman of the Bar Peter Lodder QC, will represent the interests of the profession at the Conservative, Liberal Democrat and Labour Party Conferences this autumn.

9 September 2011 - The Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, has welcomed Government moves to ban all referral fees in personal injury cases and has called on the Government to go further.

6 September 2011 - The Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, and the Criminal Bar Association (CBA), which represents criminal barristers, have voiced a cautious welcome to recent proposals to allow film cameras into courtrooms for sentencing remarks.

5 September 2011 - A research report on Practising Certificate Fees, commissioned by the Bar Council and undertaken by IFF Research, has been published. Click here to read it.