Complaints about barristers’ social media behaviour on the rise
But many are dismissed as free speech
Bar Standards Board
BSB balls-up: 26 bar students see marks changed following ethics exam ‘clerical errors’ chaos
Regulator has now told providers to release results
BSB delays release of BPTC ethics exam results after spotting ‘clerical errors’
Exclusive: All providers impacted as regulator conducts ‘further check on every paper’
BSB approves shared parental leave scheme for self-employed barristers
Regulator hopes the move will encourage more gender diversity within the profession
Barristers and football agents team up to kick off new ‘innovative’ legal business
VII Law becomes the bar’s first licensed ABS
Exclusive: There are 16,000 barristers currently practising, just 110 have criminal convictions
A third of these were for drink driving
Barrister who admitted supplying drugs that killed teenage boyfriend is NOT struck off
Henry Hendron avoided jail last year
BSB approves radical reforms that could see BPTC split in two and law school attendance made OPTIONAL
Over 500 barristers signed an open letter in support of the proposals
Double trouble: Cocaine conspiracy lawyer who was disbarred last month has now been struck off by SDT
Omar Khan slapped with a three-year prison term last spring
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We spoke to the regulator about its new youth court competences handbook
Barrister who was jailed for conspiracy to supply cocaine removed from profession
Omar Khan handed three-year prison term back in April last year
‘Jekyll and Hyde’ barrister who made his girlfriend call him ‘master’ booted out of profession
Family law specialist handed an 18-month suspended prison sentence last July
Double trouble: Lawyer struck off by SRA has now been disbarred as well
He was a barrister, solicitor and lecturer at Aberystwyth University — now he’s none of these
Barrister who was fined £1,800 for pestering three women at chambers summer party has decision OVERTURNED by High Court
A ‘medical condition’ was to blame
The true state of the BPTC, from someone who has recently gone through it
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Criminal Bar Association backs proposals for two-stage BPTC and OPTIONAL attendance at law school
Bar Council’s radical plans gain further support
‘UK’s top barrister’ fined by Bar Standards Board over website boasts
But legendary topcriminalqc.co.uk site lives on
Over 500 barristers sign open letter to BSB chairman attacking training reform proposals
Regulator’s consultation into future bar training closed yesterday
It will be 2067 before half of QCs are women, BSB says
Disappointing new diversity stats reveal that gender equality at the bar ‘remains an issue’
BPTC and pupillage could be rolled into one under new proposals
New route to qualification “needs to be more flexible and affordable”, BSB tells Legal Cheek
Bar Council switches pupillage offer day after date clash blunder
Bar hopeful D-day now 3 May 2017
Barrister who posted anti-Semitic tweets booted out of profession
Social media posts referenced Jews, pro-Zionists, Muslims and chavs
The Chase: TV quiz show barrister handed £2,500 fine for failing to properly advise client
Shaun Wallace admitted breaching BSB rules
Barrister who tried to smuggle over a tonne of shisha tobacco into UK booted out of profession
Career in law now up in smoke
BSB and Bar Council schedule BTPC civil litigation exam on pupillage offer day
“We are now looking into alternative dates and options” say bar big wigs
Barrister handed £500 fine for turning up to court ‘under the influence’ of alcohol
He also left his client unrepresented
U wot m8? BSB reminds newbie barristers to use correct ‘grammar, spelling and punctuation’
Regulator’s revised professional statement released yesterday
BSB mulls new ‘super bar exam’ that could allow non-graduates to become barristers
Bar regulator to host debate next month discussing three new proposed routes to qualification
Barrister who accused Bar Disciplinary Tribunal of ‘lack of impartiality and independence’ has appeals booted out
Immigration barrister, and a former joint head of a chambers in Birmingham, has had two appeals and two judicial review applications dismissed
Multiple choice questions to be axed from BPTC ethics exam
But that was how students got their marks?!
It’s all over for the pupillage-less BPTC graduates who started their own chambers
Farewell, “Boutique Barristers”
Pupil barrister hit with £1,000 fine after plagiarising skeleton argument in moot competition
Bar Standards Board refuses to reveal the chambers at which Samuel Campbell practises
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