Tag: Bar Standards Board
Barrister training overhaul could be approved by January
BSB's director general discusses split-BPTC plans at Legal Cheek legal education conference
Women dominate BPTC enrolments, but more men score top marks
Even when they have the same undergraduate degree results
BSB asks chambers to provide details on how they pick their pupils
Regulator keen to identify potential 'unjustified' barriers to the bar
Aspiring barrister petitions for ‘draconian’ BPTC exams to be open-book
Online appeal also argues assessments shouldn't be so close together
Pupillage places jump by 7%
New stats show 510 pupils started their training last year
Carry on dining: Inns of Court qualifying sessions here to stay, says bar regulator
But more should be held outside London
Supreme Court’s innovation judge to join solicitors and law academics at expanded Future of Legal Education and Training Conference
Lord Briggs, PJ Kirby QC, and BSB chief Dr Vanessa Davies among latest batch of speakers
Suspended chemsex junior barrister fined £250 after posting on Facebook that he’d had lunch at Middle Temple
Exclusive: Henry Hendron tells Legal Cheek he intends to challenge sanction
Wannabe barrister who lied about masters degree and work experience in pupillage application is disbarred
She claimed to have helped ten prisoners escape the death penalty
BME students far less likely to secure pupillage than white students, even if they have the same grades
A level playing field? Not so, BSB report suggests
The Apprentice: Lawyers round on ‘law firm’ owner who described himself as a ‘qualified barrister’
Use of professional title called into question during TV show
BSB unveils radical training proposals that could spell end of 12-month pupillages
Compulsory Inns dinners may be thing of the past too, says new consultation paper
Complaints about barristers’ social media behaviour on the rise
But many are dismissed as free speech
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