Lord Irvine stalls Bar's court ban on non-practising barristers
The Bar Council has been forced to suspend a controversial rule change barring non-practising barristers from acting as advocates after the Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine, said he should have been consulted. On 1 June the Bar Council changed rule 212 of its code of conduct to remove rights of audience from about 3,000 barristers not […]