Tag: Bar Standards Board
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
A practising barrister who failed to declare his old criminal convictions has been disbarred
Omissions come back to haunt forgery barrister 16 years later
Immigration barrister who told dentist he was medical negligence expert loses misconduct appeal
Be careful how you issue those legal threats, lawyers
Scrap BPTC in favour of two year pupillage, urges bar chief
Top crime QC says bar course only benefits law schools and London's landlords
Top QC who didn’t pay tax for 12 years is struck off
Commercial silk Rohan Pershad QC was "extremely poor at paperwork"
Number of bad-boy barristers drops as disbarments tumbled last year
Regulator’s annual figures show complaints rise, but 31% fewer lawyers were given red cards
Ukip man calls himself ‘Barrister-at-Law’ despite not doing pupillage — BSB says it’s OK
Bar regulator relaxed -- and Bar Council silent -- about protecting professional title
Unfunded pupillages are back
For ten years now, it has been compulsory for chambers to pay their pupils. But...
Why do wannabe barristers have to accept their BPTC place before they know if they’ve got an Inns scholarship?
The conventional wisdom is that students are unwise to do the Bar Professional Training Course...
BSB: Ethics exam that contained mock paper questions is ‘not invalid’
Finally, a month and a half after the infamous Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) ethics...
BSB In Data Protection Howler As It Divulges 1,268 Barristers’ Email Addresses
Just when you thought that the Bar Standards Board (BSB) had run out of embarrassing...