Bar Council Archives - Legal Cheek

New report reveals 34% pay gap between male and female barristers

Pay disparity remains substantial despite narrowing slightly
Oct 25 2022 12:06pm
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Want to boost your pupillage chances? Scholarships, perseverance and a first-class degree remain key factors, new report finds

Competition still fierce
Oct 18 2022 9:26am
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Bar Council and northern law firm Ward Hadaway hit by cyber attacks

Criminals continue to target profession
Apr 28 2022 10:49am
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Give pupillage seekers better feedback, urge rookie barristers

Respondents to Bar Council survey also call on chambers to ditch rejection by silence
Apr 5 2022 10:19am
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One in six young barristers want to quit, new report finds

Workloads and mental health among reasons for ditching the wig and gown
Jan 26 2022 2:13pm
Re-think training and support of junior barristers, says incoming bar chief

WhatsApp groups no substitute for chambers camaraderie
Dec 8 2021 10:58am

Bar report: Ethnic minorities find it harder to secure pupillage

‘There is a need to tone down your blackness’ during interviews, one junior barrister told researchers
Nov 8 2021 12:02pm
Don’t scrap the bar aptitude test, urges Bar Council. Up the pass mark instead

BSB mulls ditching entry exam after report found fewer than 1% of wannabe barristers fail to pass it
Oct 25 2021 9:17am
Competition for pupillage fiercer than ever, Bar Council report finds

Number of applicants chasing each pupillage spot ‘steadily increasing’ every year
Sep 29 2021 9:23am
Help Afghan lawyers escape ‘perilous future’ under Taliban rule, urge legal groups

Law Society, Bar Council and Bar Human Rights Committee ‘gravely concerned’ about fate of at least 250 female judges
Aug 17 2021 10:23am
‘Our goodwill has run dry’: Criminal lawyers sign open letter rejecting government plans to open courts on evenings and weekends

Over 500 signatories
Aug 6 2021 11:03am
New report reveals practice areas most and least impacted by pandemic

Downturn in areas including litigation, property and immigration, while employment, commercial, tax, and risk & compliance thrive
May 5 2021 9:36am

Pupillage seekers jump by 50% during pandemic

Over 3,300 wannabe barristers applied for 246 training spots this year
Apr 28 2021 10:33am
Top lockdown concern among pupil barristers? A lack of networking opportunities

‘Zoom events just don’t cut it’
Mar 19 2021 7:53am
Research: Fifth of barristers want to quit profession as debt and stress levels soar

Barristers at ‘breaking point’ and in urgent need of support, Bar Council chief warns
Jan 25 2021 9:34am
Netflix’s Top Boy uses sold off crown court to film legal scenes — as criminal case backlog hits 457,518

Blackfriars Crown Court flogged for a reported £65 million in 2019
Jan 21 2021 11:37am
Journal

A brief history of legal aid

Oxford University law graduate Jordan Briggs considers how we got to a point where the civil legal aid system is ‘running on an empty tank’
Jan 19 2021 10:34am
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Top QC under fire for suggesting pupil barristers should have ‘well polished shoes’ and a ‘proper haircut’

Former Bar Council chief Richard Atkins apologises for posting tweet quoting recently deceased judge
Nov 16 2020 12:47pm

Junior barrister hits back at Boris Johnson’s ‘hamstrung’ justice comment in viral Twitter thread

PM waded into government’s ‘lefty lawyers’ saga yesterday
Oct 7 2020 10:56am
Law Society: Lawyers could face physical attacks following Home Secretary speech

Priti Patel lashed out at ‘lefty lawyers’ and ‘do-gooders’ during conference address
Oct 6 2020 10:46am
Junior criminal barristers earning less than minimum wage, Bar Council warns

Forced to take second and even third jobs to ‘make ends meet’
Oct 2 2020 9:26am