Development After Pupillage
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Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
The Bar Standards Board is committed to ensuring that the profession continues to offer legal services of the very highest quality, therefore all practising barristers are required to complete continuing professional development (CPD). Barristers in their first three years of practise are required to complete 45 hours of CPD (the ‘New Practitioners Programme’). Thereafter, barristers are required to complete 12 hours of CPD per year (the ‘Established Practitioners Programme’). Whilst attending courses alone will not guarantee that appropriate standards are maintained, the Bar Standards Board considers that mandatory compliance with a planned programme of CPD is essential if barristers are to maintain and improve their skills.
The Advocacy Training Council (ATC)
The Advocacy Training Council (ATC) is the only standing pan-Bar committee, pursuing and promoting excellence in advocacy by providing advice, support and encouragement to the four Inns of Court, the Circuits and the Specialist Bar Associations.
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