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Barristers lay out plans for range of new entities
Tuesday, 1 July 2014Barristers 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.
Tags: Alternative business structures, BSB, entities
Posted in Alternative business structures, Barristers, Latest news, Legal Services Act, Regulation
BSB bids to improve barristers’ reporting of certain diversity data – from abysmal to awful
Friday, 13 June 2014The 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.
Tags: bar standards board, BSB, Diversity data, Solicitors Regulation Authority, SRA
Posted in Barristers, Latest news, Regulation
Green light for barristers to join LDPs, but LSB says bar still has a way to go
Tuesday, 30 March 2010The 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”.
Tags: ABS, BSB, LDPs, LSB
Posted in Barristers, Latest news, Legal Services Act, Legal Services Board, Regulation