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The Bar Standards Board held a successful session at the Bar Council’s annual conference on Saturday 6 November. The session was titled: “Putting it all in context: The regulators’ views” and the panel and audience discussed the new legal regulatory framework and the challenges that it brings.
The BSB would like to thank the session moderator Lord Mackay and the following panellists for their contributions: Elizabeth France - Chair, Office of Legal Complaints; David Edmonds – Chair, Legal Services Board; Baroness Dianne Hayter – Chair, Legal Services Board’s Consumer Panel and Baroness Ruth Deech DBE – Chair, Bar Standards Board.
The BSB would like to thank the session moderator Lord Mackay and the following panellists for their contributions: Elizabeth France - Chair, Office of Legal Complaints; David Edmonds – Chair, Legal Services Board; Baroness Dianne Hayter – Chair, Legal Services Board’s Consumer Panel and Baroness Ruth Deech DBE – Chair, Bar Standards Board.
The Bar Standards Board held a successful session at the Bar Council’s annual conference on Saturday 6 November. The session was titled: “Putting it all in context: The regulators’ views” and the panel and audience discussed the new legal regulatory framework and the challenges that it brings.
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