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• Barristers lay out plans for range of new entities

  Barristers are looking at creating a wide range of legal businesses – with solicitors, paralegals and others – once the Bar Standards Board’s (BSB) application to become an entity regulator is approved, it has emerged.

  Tuesday, 1 July 2014
  Tags: Alternative business structures, BSB, entities
  Posted in Alternative business structures, Barristers, Latest news, Legal Services Act, Regulation
  

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• BSB bids to improve barristers’ reporting of certain diversity data – from abysmal to awful

  The Bar Standards Board has set itself a minimum target of 30% for diversity data collection from barristers on sexuality, religion and disability. It is also planning more work on the under-representation of women at the bar, and reports of harassment and discrimination.

  Friday, 13 June 2014
  Tags: bar standards board, BSB, Diversity data, Solicitors Regulation Authority, SRA
  Posted in Barristers, Latest news, Regulation
  

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• Green light for barristers to join LDPs, but LSB says bar still has a way to go

  The Legal Services Board has approved plans to allow barristers to become partners in legal disciplinary practices but warned that the changes “go only part of the way towards opening up the market in the interests of consumers”.

  Tuesday, 30 March 2010
  Tags: ABS, BSB, LDPs, LSB
  Posted in Barristers, Latest news, Legal Services Act, Legal Services Board, Regulation
  

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