News and press releases

1 December 2017 - What is it the Bar Council does? Here is just a glimpse of some of the things the Bar Council did in November 2017.

30 November 2017 - Migrants held in detention for too long with inadequate access to the courts or to legal help are among a catalogue of problems highlighted by ‘Injustice in Immigration Detention’, an independent report by Dr Anna Lindley of SOAS, published today.

29 November 2017 - Bar Council response to the BSB's decision to drop QASA

13 November 2017 - IN-HOUSE BARRISTERS CAN NOW DO PRO BONO WORK

7 November 2017 - Times journalist Melanie Phillips and the BBC’s Zoe Conway have won the Bar Council Legal Reporting Awards 2017.

6 November 2017 - Bar Council rolls out mobile friendly ethics tool

6 November 2017 - Bar Council reopens applications

6 November 2017 - Tanya Murshed of 1MCB Chambers has won this year’s Sydney Elland Goldsmith Bar Pro Bono Award for her outstanding commitment to assisting vulnerable individuals convicted of capital offences in Uganda over four and a half years on a pro bono basis.