News and press releases

15 October 2016 - In a rallying call from the Chairman of the Bar, barristers have been told at the 31st Bar & Young Bar Conference that they are more than mere ‘economic actors’ and that, while not expecting to be popular the profession’s value should be acknowledged.

15 October 2016 - Bar Council, Inns of Court and IBC unite on Wellbeing at the Bar initiative

11 October 2016 - What is it the Bar Council does? Here's a glimpse of just some of the work we have done in September 2016.

5 October 2016 - The call from the Lord Chancellor Elizabeth Truss MP this week at the Conservative Party Conference for more to be done to boost diversity in the legal profession and judiciary has been backed by Chantal-Aimée Doerries QC, Chairman of the Bar.

23 September 2016 - The candidates who are standing in the election for the 2017 Bar Council have been announced.

16 September 2016 - What is it the Bar Council does? Here's a glimpse of just some of the work we have done in August 2016.

15 September 2016 - Chairman of the Bar, Chantal-Aimée Doerries QC, commented on today’s Joint Statement from the Ministry of Justice, Lord Chief Justice and Senior President of Tribunals, Transforming our Justice System

14 September 2016 - Sir Ernest Ryder, Senior President of Tribunals, Caroline Wilson, Former British Consul-General to Hong Kong and Macao, and the President of the Malaysian Bar and Chairman of the Bar Council in Malaysia, Steven Thiru, have been announced as the keynote speakers for the 31st Annual Bar & Young Bar Conference on 15 October 2016 in London.