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Top judge slams BSB over ‘injustice’ to student wrongly kicked off bar training course

Ryan Eve vindicated in High Court after regulator’s blunders

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Bar course pass rates drop 18% during pandemic

Just 10% of BPTC grads started pupillage in 2020-21, new stats show

Jul 16 2021 10:24am
Super regulator sides with pupillage seekers in row over rejection by silence

Follows letter from wannabe barrister first reported by Legal Cheek

Jun 8 2021 12:00pm
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Henry Hendron avoids disbarment — again

Scandal-hit barrister reprimanded for continuing to work during suspension over drug offences

Jun 1 2021 10:51am
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Bar exam bosses apologise for last summer’s chaos after damning independent review

Outside experts heavily critical of online set-up that left some students locked out and others urinating in bottles and buckets

May 6 2021 1:08pm
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Barristers are demanding tougher sanctions for sexual misconduct at the bar

Regulators are under pressure to dish out more than brief suspensions

Feb 19 2021 11:24am
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Journal

The ‘cab-rank’ rule — an ethical conundrum

Aspiring barrister Benjamin Ramsey explores the recent events involving Dinah Rose QC and David Perry QC

Feb 17 2021 10:22am
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Pupillage spots plummet amid COVID uncertainty

475 to 354

Feb 1 2021 9:35am
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Barrister who touched two people ‘sexually’ handed three-month suspension

Incidents occurred in the summer of 2019

Jan 27 2021 9:19am
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Henry Hendron to appear before disciplinary tribunal — again

Exclusive: Junior barrister tells Legal Cheek he’s looking forward to ‘knocking out each and every one of the BSB charges’

Jan 8 2021 10:36am
Target BAME aspiring barristers with pupillage opportunities, BSB tells chambers in ‘anti-racist statement’

Regulator launches action plan

Nov 30 2020 10:42am
December bar exams to go ahead as planned

BSB keeping assessments under ‘close review’ in wake of second lockdown

Nov 10 2020 9:21am

White male barristers out-earn female and BAME colleagues

Even with the same level of experience and areas of law, research finds

Nov 6 2020 8:35am
Top law prof to oversee independent review into summer bar exam fiasco

BSB announces appointment of Hull Uni pro-vice chancellor Rebecca Huxley-Binns

Nov 4 2020 10:48am
BSB reveals bar exam pass rates following summer proctoring problems

Scores consistent with previous years, says regulator — if you don’t count students who encountered IT issues

Oct 15 2020 1:15pm
‘I’d be shouted at because I left the pub at 10 o’clock rather than 11pm’, says bullied former pupil barrister

New bar study finds rookies ‘particularly vulnerable’ to bullying and harassment

Oct 13 2020 1:07pm
Exam waiver ‘not an option now or in the future’, says BSB

Fallout between regulator and students rumbles on

Sep 23 2020 12:48pm
Bar students won’t be told their exam results before resits

BSB says it’s not possible to release grades sooner for ‘quality assurance’ reasons

Sep 17 2020 3:23pm

Bar exams latest: BSB pushes ahead with ‘pen and paper’ October resits

One third of exams beset by technical difficulties, regulator confirms

Sep 11 2020 11:25am
COVID-19: Regulator predicts drop in pupillage numbers

Knock-on effects of pandemic likely felt by students seeking training spots over next two years, according to new BSB impact report

Sep 9 2020 10:27am
Reverse mentoring scheme sees BAME bar students share ‘experiences of racism’ with senior white barristers

BSB launches pilot

Sep 3 2020 9:18am