Tag: Bar Standards Board
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Pupillage numbers bounce back following Covid dip
BSB report shows leap from pandemic-y 354 in 2020 to 511 in 2021
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‘Dramatic increase’ in complaints about barristers social media posts
Overall BSB findings show reports are on the rise
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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
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Barrister apprenticeships? Quite possibly says pupillage expert
There are barriers to overcome, but these are not 'insurmountable'
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Bar aptitude test ‘not effective filter’ of weak wannabe barristers
Fail rate of under 1%, report finds
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Bar exams: BSB stats reveal widely differing pass rates among providers
New figures -- focusing on centralised assessments only -- show average pass rates ranging between 92% and 18%
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‘Cancelled’ barrister cleared of misconduct over tweet that got him kicked out of chambers
But fined £500 over separate tweet about Muslims
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Pupil barrister numbers down nearly a third in 30 years
757 in 1991 ⤵️ 542 in 2020
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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
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Super regulator sides with pupillage seekers in row over rejection by silence
Follows letter from wannabe barrister first reported by Legal Cheek
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Henry Hendron avoids disbarment — again
Scandal-hit barrister reprimanded for continuing to work during suspension over drug offences
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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
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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
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The ‘cab-rank’ rule — an ethical conundrum
Aspiring barrister Benjamin Ramsey explores the recent events involving Dinah Rose QC and David Perry QC
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Barrister who touched two people ‘sexually’ handed three-month suspension
Incidents occurred in the summer of 2019
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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'
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Target BAME aspiring barristers with pupillage opportunities, BSB tells chambers in ‘anti-racist statement’
Regulator launches action plan
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December bar exams to go ahead as planned
BSB keeping assessments under 'close review' in wake of second lockdown
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White male barristers out-earn female and BAME colleagues
Even with the same level of experience and areas of law, research finds