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108th High Court judge

Guy Richard Newey QC of Maitland Chambers has been appointed as an additional High Court judge in the Chancery Division to help with an increased workload. 

28 February 2010
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Stability for the publicly funded Bar, modernisation for all ...

SECURING stability for the publicly funded Bar and the need for all barristers to modernise in the fast-moving legal landscape have been set at the heart of the agenda for 2010 by ...
31 January 2010
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CHINA BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MISSION HAILED A SUCCESS

A Bar Council group of experts in commercial and criminal law visited the Chinese cities of Shanghai, Hangzhou, Guangzhou and Shenzhen in early November. The first three cities ...
31 December 2009
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RECEPTION FOR A DELEGATION FROM THE NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION

On 3 December the Bar Council’s international committee with the support of Outer Temple Chambers, COMBAR’s Africa sub committee, ChBA and the CBA, welcomed a delegation of ...
31 December 2009
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VISIT BY THE TIANJIN BAR ASSOCIATION

The China sub-committee of the International Committee was pleased to welcome a delegation of nine office holders from the Tianjin Bar Association to London on 7 December. The Bar ...
31 December 2009
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Diversity on the Circuits

Under the Circuit Diversity Mentor Scheme senior QCs are the first point of contact for barristers interested in applying for judicial appointments or Silk. Desmond Browne QC ...
31 October 2009
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Overhauling the Complaints Process

David Wurtzel meets Sue Carr QC, Chairman of the Complaints Committee of the Bar Standards Board, and discovers how the new complaints procedure is working in practice 

31 October 2009
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New members appointed to the QC Appointments Selection Panel and ...

TWO new lay members and a solicitor member have been appointed to the QC Appointments Selection Panel, and one new lay member has been appointed to the QC Complaints Committee. The ...
30 June 2009
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Nichol Review of QC system endorses the revised procedure

THE Bar Council and the Law Society today published the report of Sir Duncan Nichol CBE’s review of Queen’s Counsel Appointments.  The purpose of the review was to examine ways of ...
30 June 2009
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Professor Dame Joan Higgins appointed Chair of Queen’s Counsel Selection Panel

PROFESSOR Dame Joan Higgins has been appointed as the new lay Chair of the Queen’s Counsel Selection Panel, replacing Baroness Butler-Sloss GBE. The Panel assesses applicants for ...
30 June 2009
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