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Bar Quality Advisory Panel - BQAP
The Bar Quality Advisory Panel - BQAP - is a new, non-disciplinary body that will receive referrals about a member of the Bar's performance from judges, instructing solicitors and barristers on the same legal team.
The panel will then be able to advise the member of the Bar concerned about his or her work, and how to improve things for the future. The Panel is intended to operate as an advisory body.
BQAP will play an important, new non-disciplinary role in tackling examples of poor practice which fall short of a breach of our Code of Conduct. The panel will therefore raise standards of practice at the Bar and enhance our reputation for excellence.
The Panel has no links to the Complaints Committee of the Bar Standards Board.
The Panel has no coercive powers, but if the barrister refuses to co-operate, it may advise the referrer to make a complaint to the Complaints Committee of the Bar Standards Board.
Click below for further information on the Bar Quality Advisory Panel:
- The Bar Quality Advisory Panel: A Guide for Barristers against whom a reference is made to the Panel
- The Bar Quality Advisory Panel: Operating Principles
- The Bar Quality Advisory Panel: A Guide to Making a Referral
- Bar Quality Advisory Panel: Referral Form
- The Bar Quality Advisory Panel: Panel Members October 2007
