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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 …

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 …

BSB publishes updated disciplinary tribunal regulations and rules on parental leave in new BSB Handbook

A new rule clarifying how vulnerable witnesses give evidence is one of a set of new and updated disciplinary tribunal regulations published today in the new version of the BSB handbook. The revised Handbook also contains new rules about shared …

BSB to revise rules relating to authorisation to practise and public access work following consultations

The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has approved a number of rule changes for barristers renewing their practising certificates and for those doing public access work following recent consultations.

The rule changes regarding authorisation to practise will:

  • require barristers to provide