Young Bar blog: Supporting the Young Bar during COVID-19
Katherine Duncan & Joanne Kane, Chair and Vice-Chair of the Young Barristers’ Committee (YBC) share how they work to ensure the safety of young barristers and pupils during the times of COVID-19
Guest blog: Susan Acland-Hood, CEO, HM Courts & Tribunals Service - Unprecedented times
Susan Acland-Hood, CEO, HM Courts & Tribunals Service, blogs exclusively for BarTalk on the latest developments in the courts to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic
Young Bar blog: Pupillage Interview Advice - the Best Things in Life are Free
Aspiring barristers shouldn't have to pay for help when preparing for pupillage interviews, says the Bar Council's Young Barristers' Committee
Guest blog: Social mobility – does Oxbridge matter?
Stuart Jessop, barrister at 6 Pump Court blogs on whether his polytechnic background was a benefit or a barrier to gaining pupillage and whether the Bar needs to look more closely on whether it recruits on potential or on other factors such as age, race, gender, what school or university you went to
Regulating legal services: justice, not simplicity is the goal
The Bar Council’s Melanie Mylvaganam, Policy Manager: Regulatory Affairs, Law Reform and Ethics and Eleanore Hughes, Policy Analyst: Regulatory Affairs, Law Reform and Ethics, give an overview of the issues discussed at a recent forum.
Five things we did in February 2020
See a snapshot of the Bar Council's work in our feature "Five things the Bar Council did” and read the top five picks from February