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The Bar Standards Board regulates barristers in England and Wales for the public interest. It is responsible for: The BSB's functions were originally carried out by the General Council of the Bar, the barristers' representative body, until 2006 when the Bar Council created the BSB as an independent regulator. The Legal Services Board has once ...
The General Council of the Bar, commonly known as the Bar Council, is the representative body for barristers in England and Wales. Established in 1894, the Bar Council is the "approved regulator" of barristers, but discharges its regulatory function to the independent Bar Standards Board. As the lead representative body for barristers in ...
Beginning in January 2006, standards for admission to the bar and disciplinary proceedings are administered by the Bar Standards Board (BSB), a regulatory board of the General Council of the Bar. The BSB is not legally separate from the General Council of the Bar, but is set up so as to be independent of it. [12]
The Bar Standards Board regulates barristers, for example, while the other regulators are: CILEx [7] Notaries [8] Council for Licensed Conveyancers [9] Intellectual Property Regulation Board [10] Costs Lawyer Standards Board [11] All regulators report to the overarching Legal Services Board. Regulatory work is designed to ensure all work in ...
Ruth Lynn Deech, Baroness Deech, DBE (née Fraenkel; born 29 April 1943) is a British academic, [1] lawyer, bioethicist and politician, most noted for chairing the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), from 1994 to 2002, and as the former Principal of St Anne's College, Oxford. Deech sits as a Crossbench peer in the House of ...
A barrister is a lawyer who represents a litigant as an advocate before a court. A barrister speaks in court and presents the case before a judge, with or without a jury. In some jurisdictions, a barrister receives additional training in evidence law, ethics, and court practice and procedure.
Gisela Maame Abbam FRSA is a Ghanaian-British businesswoman working in both the private and public sector who has focused on the healthcare industry. She is the first black Chair of the General Pharmaceutical Council, [1] and is the first black chair of the British Science Association. [2] She is a board member of the Bar Standards Board, [3] a ...
The Public Access Scheme was established in 2004. [1] The scheme allowed members of the public to instruct barristers directly, without the involvement of a solicitor for the first time in more than a century. There was initially uncertainty as to whether clients would understand the limitations of barristers’ work.