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BSB to take a new approach towards assuring quality at the Bar

The Bar Standards Board has decided to take a new approach towards the quality assurance of barristers following a review. The BSB will not therefore implement the earlier scheme, the Quality
Assurance Scheme for Advocates (QASA).

Over the past few …

Education and Training Important Update

Important reminder for all candidates who are currently on the existing pathways.

The modules on the existing pathway will be running until the end of 2018.

If you are interested in completing the pathway to Fellowship, please secure a place …

Baroness Blackstone to be the new Chair of the Bar Standards Board

The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has today announced that The Rt Hon the Baroness Blackstone will succeed Sir Andrew Burns KCMG as its new Chair on 1 January 2018.

Welcoming her appointment, Dr Vanessa Davies, the Director General of the …

Civil standard of proof set to be adopted for professional misconduct proceedings for barristers

Following a public consultation earlier this year, the Bar Standards Board (BSB) has decided to change the standard of proof applied when barristers, and others regulated by the BSB, face disciplinary proceedings for professional misconduct. Subject to approval from the …

Profession needs to be alert to money laundering

Money launderers hoping to infiltrate the profession continues to be a major problem, according to the autumn update of the Risk Outlook.

We produce the Outlook every year to outline the key risks that could affect law firms so that …