The world’s Bar leaders have for the first time conceded that partnerships between accountants and lawyers could be permitted – with restrictions. Bar leaders, meeting in private at the International Bar Association (IBA) last week, agreed Bar Associations were within their rights to ban MDPs, but also said that they could be permitted. The IBA’s […]

A senior Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) official said the UK judiciary had recognised – “not always with tremendous enthusiasm” – that abused women could suffer from “cumulative provocation”. Speaking at the International Bar Conference, CPS director of casework evaluation Chris Newell referred to Crawley woman Kiranjit Ahluwalia, who burnt her husband to death. She had […]

Employed barristers are threatening to complain to the competition authorities, and to brief solicitor advocates rather than counsel, if the Bar does not push hard enough to give them rights of audience. Despite a long campaign, employed barristers currently have less rights of audience than solicitor advocates or even employed solicitors. The Bar Council is […]