News and press releases

7 September 2016 - Court of Appeal taking a ‘strict line’ over failure to check appeal grounds

1 September 2016 - Annual elections for the Bar Council will take place this autumn and successful candidates will join from 1 January 2017 for a three-year term

25 August 2016 - The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Bar of England and Wales will be held at 11.00 on Saturday 17 September 2016

23 August 2016 - Court fee increases of more than 600 per cent already beginning to bite

16 August 2016 - The Bar Council and Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales have issued a joint statement today, voicing concern over the abduction of Mir Ahmed Bin Quasem, a lawyer in Bangladesh.

11 August 2016 - The Bar Council's 2016 Legal Reporting Awards competition is now open. Journalists are invited to submit written articles and broadcast pieces on public interest law and justice issues.

11 August 2016 - Chairman of the Bar of England & Wales, Chantal-Aimee Doerries QC, makes statement after 70 people, including 55 lawyers, were killed by a suicide bomber in Pakistan.

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