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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 ...
In the United Kingdom, the term "the bar" refers only to the professional organization for barristers (referred to in Scotland as advocates); the other type of UK lawyer, solicitors, have their own body, the Law Society. Correspondingly, being "called to the bar" refers to admission to the profession of barristers, not solicitors.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the bar was one of the limited number of professions considered suitable for upper-class men; politics, the Army and Navy, the established clergy, banking and the civil and diplomatic services being the others. Many leading 18th- and 19th-century politicians were barristers; few were solicitors.
The Bar Standards Board held a workshop at the 2016 Annual Bar Conference, [17] and authorised the first three Licensed Bodies in April 2017, including VII Law, Minerva Law and ShenSmith Law. [18] Licensed bodies have been reported by Thomson Reuters as a leading innovation of the legal industry.
UK retail sales unexpectedly fell by 0.3 per cent in December, the Office for National Statistics said. It followed a 0.1 per cent increase in November, revised down from a previous estimate of a ...
A bar association is a professional association of lawyers as generally organized in countries following the Anglo-American types of jurisprudence. [1] The word bar is derived from the old English/European custom of using a physical railing (bar) to separate the area in which court or legal profession business is done from the viewing area for the general public or students of the law.
A bar examination is an examination administered by the bar association of a ... hailing from four countries, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and the United ...
A bar council (Irish: Comhairle an Bharra) or bar association, in a common law jurisdiction with a legal profession split between solicitors and barristers or advocates, is a professional body that regulates the profession of barristers.