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Bar Council unveils package of measures to help the less privileged access the Bar

The Bar Council has introduced new measures to improve access to the Bar as it prepares to announce the initial findings of its review of diversity in the profession. Bar Council chairman Geoffrey Vos QC unveiled a number of initiatives to widen access to the Bar in a speech to think tank Social Mobility Foundation this week (26 February).
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Seven Bedford Row picks up new chief exec

Seven Bedford Row has hired Orange Broadband managing director Stephen Allen as its new chief executive. Allen joined the common law set on 12 January. The set has been looking to fill the position since former CEO Robert Graham-Campbell left last September to join Maitland Chambers.
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Commercial Bar: Making the silk cut

"Don't worry George, most people get turned down on their first application. You're bound to get it next year." That was the friendly advice offered to my father in 1970 by Dick Taverne QC MP, his old Balliol chum and a close government colleague of the then Labour Lord Chancellor, Lord Gardiner. As a nine-year-old, I vividly remember the April morning the following year when George Carman first called himself QC - it was the happiest day of his life.
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Commercial Bar: Silver is the new gold

"Commercial barristers are struggling," said an article ('The Bar Barometer') in the pages of Legal Week in December 2006, offering analysis of the future prospects for leading chambers and supported by tales of woe from several leading commercial sets.
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Commercial Bar: Join the parties

The amendment to Civil Procedure Rule (CPR) 5.4, now in force, has reversed the default position that statements of case (except the claim form) in civil litigation would only be released to the public from the court file if the court gave permission. Now the position is that all statements of case are available simply at the request of any non-party unless the court orders otherwise.
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Commercial Bar: Split personality

As regulators begin to flex their competition law muscles, an issue that is now arising in the courts - and particularly the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) - is the extent to which the regulator can or should wear its 'regulator' and 'competition authority' hats at the same time.
6 minute read

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Commercial Bar: Uncertain ground

In Svenska v the Government of Lithuania and others the Court of Appeal dismissed the Government of Lithuania's appeal from the decision of Justice Gloster, holding that it was subject to the jurisdiction of the court in proceedings to enforce an International Chamber of Commerce arbitration award against it.
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Commercial Bar: No 'I' in team

The line between the work of barristers and solicitors is becoming increasingly blurred as both professions undergo simultaneous transformations. For those practising independently at the Bar, these changes undoubtedly affect working styles, as well as the nature of their relationship with solicitors.
6 minute read

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The Bar: Neuberger to tackle pupillage concerns

Agenda emerges from Neuberger's access review as report set for Easter publication; the Bar Council lobbies for Legal Services Board independence; and Littleton Chambers names new chief executive. Claire Ruckin reports on the latest developments at the Bar A report on widening access to the Bar is set to be published by Easter. Appeal court judge Lord Justice David Neuberger is heading up a working party tasked with carrying out a review on the issue, following reports that the chances of students securing a pupillage are at an all-time low.
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The Bar: Bar Council lobbies on Legal Services Board

Agenda emerges from Neuberger's access review as report set for Easter publication; the Bar Council lobbies for Legal Services Board independence; and Littleton Chambers names new chief executive. Claire Ruckin reports on the latest developments at the Bar The Bar Council launched a major lobbying offensive last month (19 February), warning that the provisions in the Legal Services Bill relating to appointments to the new Legal Services Board will weaken the perceived independence of the profession as well as jeopardising its contribution to the UK economy.
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