Interested in expanding your practice and income streams by undertaking litigation work?
Take our Bar Standards Board (BSB) approved litigation training course to gain the required skills and knowledge to apply to extend your practising certificate.
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Who is this course for?
Practising barristers who wish to conduct litigation.
To take this course, you must hold a full practising certificate.
If you are a self-employed or an employed barrister, you must have:
- Undertaken BSB approved public access training and registered with the BSB to accept instruction from public access clients
- Significant litigation experience and intend to apply for a waiver from the public access training requirement
What will I learn?
Once you’ve completed this course, you’ll:
- Understand the BSB requirements to conduct litigation
- Be in a position to develop procedures and case management practices to support a successful litigation practice. These include:
- Efficient onboarding procedures and processes for clients and which protect your time
- Drafting client care letters which are both regulatory compliant and balance contractual risk
- Arranging flexible fee structures to enable you to litigate smoothly
- Checklists for all stages of the litigation process
- Learn how to identify potential professional risks arising when litigating cases and how to mitigate these
- Develop strategies for excellence in client care
- Understand the duties owed to litigants in person and Mckenzie Friends
- Balance your business model for the conduct of litigation alongside your professional instructions and public access cases
- Know how to apply for your practising certificate extension
After the course
- You’ll have everything you need to apply to the BSB to extend your practising certificate
- You’ll have access to resources such as guidelines and advice to carry out litigation in public access cases
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
Meet your CPD obligations
6 hours towards your CPD learning objectives.
Prices: £260 + VAT for BRF subscribers | £325 + VAT for standard | 6 CPD hours