The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has appointed Phil Golding to be its new Director General. He will take up the role on 1 July, which has been covered in the interim by Steve Haines following Mark Neale’s retirement.

Professor Christopher Bones, Chair, The Bar Standards Board said: 

To coincide with this week’s committee stage of the Courts and Tribunals Bill, which threatens to significantly restrict jury trials, the Bar Council is publishing a polemical attack on the proposal by Geoffrey Robertson KC, founding head of Doughty Street Chambers.

In his treatise ‘For Mercy’s Sake’, Mr Robertson exp...

The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has published its 

Examine the proposal to prohibit sexual relations between barristers and trainees or pupils, exploring both its rationale and implications for professional culture. (The Guardian)

By Jack Woolcombe

I was born in April 2003. He was born in May 2003. I was sitting behind his junior counsel at the Old Bailey as a mini-pupil at Red Lion Chambers, watching him face a charge of murder.

Mini-pupillages are talked about endlessly by students trying to break into the Bar, the advice always the same: get one at th...