25th Annual Bar Conference
6 November 2010
Hilton London Metropole, 225 Edgware Road, London W2 1JU
This year the Bar celebrates 25 years of the Bar Conference and invites barristers, the wider legal community and all those with an interest in the profession to sign-up for this year’s landmark event.
The 25th Bar Conference, which adopts the theme “Raising the Bar: Core Values v. Opportunities”, provides a forum for debate and education as the profession looks ahead to the potentially radical changes facing the Bar and the legal profession as a whole. This is a chance to examine what challenges and opportunities lie in store both at home and abroad, over a wide range of practice areas, through a mixture of topical plenary debates and workshops.
Key participants include:
- The Rt Hon The Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, Master of the Rolls
- The Rt Hon Dominic Grieve QC MP, Attorney General for England and Wales; and Northern Ireland
- Nicholas Green QC, Chairman of the Bar
- Boris Johnson, Mayor of London
- Brian Paddick, Former Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police
- The Hon Mr Justice Silber, High Court Queen's Bench Division
- Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, Vice-Chairman of the Bar Standards BoardHon
- Danny Shaw, BBC Home Affairs Correspondent

