News and press releases

19 October 2016 - John Collins of Zenith Chambers has won this year’s Bar Pro Bono Award for his outstanding contribution to pro bono work over a career spanning six decades.

17 October 2016 - The winners of the Bar Council 2016 Legal Reporting Awards were announced at the Annual Bar and Young Bar Conference on Saturday 15 October.

17 October 2016 - In his speech to the Annual Bar and Young Bar Conference 2016 this Saturday, the President of the Malaysian Bar Association, Steven Thiruneelakandan highlighted the threats to the independence of his profession and thanked the Bar Council for standing in solidarity with the Malaysian Bar.

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.