Asylum and detention specialist sets up BSB firm and law student project

A barrister whose charity, regulated as a law firm by the Bar Standards Board (BSB), was dissolved at the end of last year due to funding problems, has set up both a conventional BSB firm and a pioneering university law project to help immigration detainees.

‘Social enterprise’ ABS set to merge with London councils’ joint legal team

LGSS Law, the ‘social enterprise’ alternative business structure owned by three local authorities, is set expand dramatically by merging with the shared legal team of Westminster City Council and the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea. The two councils envisaged costs savings through less use of external lawyers and bringing in additional income.

Junior barristers “bearing the brunt” of pressure in criminal courts

“Concerned words” about diversity and social mobility need to be turned into action through changes to the way the criminal courts operate if junior barristers are to be retained, the Criminal Bar Association has warned. The association’s vice-chair said it had recently received “a surge” of complaints of bad listing practices.

PwC: New business structures and capital will allow big law firms to deliver “fundamental change”

Solicitor struck off for “playing” the immigration system to get clients released from detention

Bar Council say BSB registration plan risks deterring barristers from youth court work