News Archive
Bar Council launches consultation on the Practising Certificate Fee
12 March 2010
The purpose of the consultation paper, which has been prepared on behalf of the Finance Committee by a sub group under the stewardship of the Treasurer, Andrew Mitchell QC, is to seek the views of the profession on the way that funds required from regulated persons through the PCF are raised.
The 8th Ruth Steinkraus-Cohen International Law Lecture
8 March 2010
‘The case for an International Court for the Environment’
Stephen Hockman QC of Six Pump Court, former Chairman of the Bar Council will give this year's 8th Ruth Steinkraus-Cohen International Law Lecture.
6 March 2010
The Bar Council has submitted comments to the Legal Service Board on the board’s Business Plan for 2010/11.
Bar Council Welcomes Government's Decision to Create New Executive Agency to Administer Legal Aid
3 March 2010
The Bar Council has welcomed the Ministry of Justice’s decision announced today to create a new executive agency to replace the Legal Services Commission (LSC) to administer legal aid. The Government’s announcement follows the publication of the Review of Legal Aid Delivery and Governance by Sir Ian Magee, which had been commissioned by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), and a highly critical report of the Public Accounts Committee published in February (9th Report, HC 322) which accepted the findings of a review of the procurement of criminal legal aid by the National Audit Office in 2009
Bar Chairman Calls for Bar to Modernise
1 March 2010
The Chairman of the Bar, Nicholas Green QC, will today call for the Bar to continue to modernise as it enters a new era of legal services provision. Speaking at a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Legal and Constitutional Affairs in the House of Lords, Green will set out the challenges facing the Bar following the implementation of the Legal Services Act and will outline how the Bar is responding.
129 Queen’s Counsel Appointed in 2009-10 Competition
26 February 2010
The fourth round of appointments as Queen’s Counsel was announced today. These appointments are made following consideration by the independent Selection Panel, which recommends who should receive this highly sought-after award. All those appointed have demonstrated excellence in advocacy in the higher courts.
Response by the Bar Council on Referral Fees
26 February 2010
The Bar Council has today made a submission to the Legal Services Consumer Panel's Call for Evidence on Referral Arrangements. We consider that the payment of a referral fee impacts negatively upon the independence and public perception of the integrity of the legal advisors who make such payments.
Bar Council Welcomes Report on Judicial Diversity
24 February 2010
The Bar Council has today welcomed the publication of the final report from the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Panel on Judicial Diversity. Chaired by Baroness Neuberger DBE, the Panel has published a report which sets out proposals for a co-ordinated programme designed to deliver ‘sustained progress towards a more diverse judiciary’.
Next Step in the Bar Council's Judicial Review on Legal Aid
17 February 2010
Pre-action protocol letters delivered on Wednesday 17 February 2010
16 February 2010
The Bar Council’s CFA Panel have responded to the MoJ Consultation, Controlling Costs in Defamation Proceedings: Reducing Conditional Fee Agreement Success Fees.
