The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has today published its latest annual report and cost transparency metrics. This report covers our activities between April 2021 and March 2022 During this period, COVID-19 continued to have an…
The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has today announced the appointment of Gisela Abbam FRSA MBA as a new lay Board member. Gisela Abbam is a Senior Director for Government Affairs…
Government legal panels are lacking in diversity, says a new report published by the Bar Council today. The Bar Council – which represents all barristers in England and Wales – is…
Provisions in the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (published today) to add a regulatory objective to the Legal Services Act 2007 (LSA) may be incompatible with barristers’ duties and…
The BSB today launches a 12-month digital comparison tool (DCT) pilot. DCTs allow consumers to locate and select service providers, using a range of criteria such as a location, ratings and…
Web scraping is something enigmatic in the public’s eye. It’s not entirely surprising - every innovative solution takes some time before it’s understood and accepted. Generally, widespread acceptance closely follows…
The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has published two new research reports, the first looking at Bar training providers’ approaches to equality and diversity and the second examining students’ experiences of…
By Joe Ferguson, family law solicitor at JMW Solicitors, a top-100 law firm with a specialist digital assets offering for commercial and individual clients. Clients are often alive to the…
On 10 June 2022, the Law Commission published an options paper for the Government on how it can improve the law to ensure that corporations are effectively held to account…
John Binns, partner in the financial crime team at BCL Solicitors LLP analyses the broad range of law enforcement powers available to tackle suspected money launderers, terrorist financiers and their…
Challenging the reliability of AI and other complex multi-connected intelligent computer systems will become of fundamental importance as businesses and society move rapidly towards a software-dominated, algorithm-governed future. Increasingly ubiquitous…
Opening up the office doors again to clients’ in this so-called ‘new normal’ may appear to be going against the grain for some. However, as serious injury specialists acting for…
