The (dispute) resolution will be televised
Last week the Bar Council announced that it is teaming up with the UK's second-most venerable anachronism, the BBC, to produce a documentary about - you guessed it - life at the Bar.
May 23, 2007 at 08:43 PM
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Last week the Bar Council announced that it is teaming up with the UK's second-most venerable anachronism, the BBC, to produce a documentary about – you guessed it – life at the Bar.
The programme is backed by funding from the Open University – where 98% of all practising barristers obtained their law degrees – and will follow the careers
of various students, pupils and counsel in a bid to lift the metaphorical wig from the profession's impenetrably
esoteric scalp.
Because if there's one thing the Bar needs, of course, it's thousands more applicants chasing a pupillage.
"Ironically, barristers can feel awkward and uneasy when they know a camera is around," Fountain Court's Tim Dutton QC told reporters last week in a confident, easy manner.
"It is a time of unprecedented attack upon justice [and now] is the right time for us to take the modest risk of allowing a documentary to be made which holds up a mirror to our work."
Let's hope they like what they see.
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