Our comprehensive anti-racist training is for all barristers, clerks and chambers staff. This course has been designed by our Race Panel to meet the requirements in the Bar Standards Board's (BSB) anti-racist strategy.
Our 2.5 hour course will guide you through your legal, regulatory, and policy responsibilities. You’ll leave equipped to recognise racist behaviours, methods for dealing with them and techniques for promoting inclusion.
In our 2021 and 2024 Race at the Bar reports, we provided recommended actions for chambers and organisations to undertake. All of our recommendations have been drafted to be in line with the BSB’s anti-racist statement. In the statement, the BSB asks chambers and barristers to take action.
This training is one of 4 anti-racist actions you’re required to implement. Our Race equality toolkit shows you how to act on race inequality in your chambers or organisation.
What will I learn?
This introductory training course covers anti-racism and is designed to raise awareness of race equality issues at the Bar. General equality and diversity training is not sufficient to address race equality at the Bar.
We’ll give you a summary of your legal and regulatory duties as well as introducing different types of racism. You'll be guided through a series of practical exercises and scenarios drawn from the experience of barristers from ethnic minority backgrounds, providing an invaluable starting point for further training and education on race.
Course programme
- Introducing concepts
- Exercise 1: understanding concepts in racism
- Exercise 2: scenario discussion
- Exercise 3: anti-racism both personal and collective
- Take-aways and commitments
Who is this course for?
All barristers, pupils, practice managers, clerks and chambers staff.
After the course
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You’ll know how to address racism and under-representation in your chambers or organisation
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You’ll have access to resources such as guidance on allyship, positive action guide and our introduction to race workbook only available through this course
Why pick us?
The Bar Council is the voice of the barrister profession – representing and supporting the nearly 18,000 barristers in England and Wales, and championing the rule of law and access to justice.
We run an extensive training and events programme tailored to the needs of barristers and chambers staff. All our trainers have worked in the legal sector, bringing their professional experience in to the course.
Our training focuses on day-to-day application, drawing on real-life case studies and the latest updates in the sector, so you’ll come away with practical advice, knowledge and resources to embed your learning straight away.
We know that not everyone likes to learn in the same way, so we offer a range of formats including in person, online and on-demand. And if you want to learn as a group in your chambers or organisation we can come to you. We offer discounts for group bookings, and Bar Representation Fee subscribers always get 20% off all our training and events.
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Prices
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2.5 hours towards your CPD learning objectives.
The duty to implement anti-racist actions
The duty to take anti-racist actions, how we're tackling racism at the Bar and tools for you.
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Our work tackling racism and building racial diversity and inclusivity across the Bar
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Prices: £120 +VAT for BRF subscribers | £150 +VAT for standard | 1.5 CPD hours