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Dear Editor
The July 2009 edition of Counsel published an article entitled “Since you pay for it....” (pp 14-16) about the cover that Bar Mutual offers for disciplinary complaints to the Bar Standards Board. Unfortunately, Bar Mutual’s address as published in text box “Support and Assistance” was incorrect. We are now at 90 Fenchurch Street, London EC3M 4ST.
Please can you alert your readers accordingly as we are concerned that new complaints notifications will be sent to our old address from which mail is no longer being automatically forwarded.
Zoe Staniforth Thomas Miller Professional Indemnity, 90 Fenchurch St, London, EC3M 4ST
The Editor welcomes letters, ideas for articles and legal news. Letters and articles may be shortened or edited for space and clarity. Any views expressed in the letters published are not necessarily those of Counsel, the Bar Council or the Bar Standards Board. Contact: Tracey Crate, COUNSEL, LexisNexis Butterworths, 2 Addiscombe Road, Croydon, CR9 5AF, tel: 020 8696 9141, fax: 020 8760 0588, email: tracey.crate@lexisnexis.co.uk.
Please can you alert your readers accordingly as we are concerned that new complaints notifications will be sent to our old address from which mail is no longer being automatically forwarded.
Zoe Staniforth Thomas Miller Professional Indemnity, 90 Fenchurch St, London, EC3M 4ST
The Editor welcomes letters, ideas for articles and legal news. Letters and articles may be shortened or edited for space and clarity. Any views expressed in the letters published are not necessarily those of Counsel, the Bar Council or the Bar Standards Board. Contact: Tracey Crate, COUNSEL, LexisNexis Butterworths, 2 Addiscombe Road, Croydon, CR9 5AF, tel: 020 8696 9141, fax: 020 8760 0588, email: tracey.crate@lexisnexis.co.uk.
Dear Editor
The July 2009 edition of Counsel published an article entitled “Since you pay for it....” (pp 14-16) about the cover that Bar Mutual offers for disciplinary complaints to the Bar Standards Board. Unfortunately, Bar Mutual’s address as published in text box “Support and Assistance” was incorrect. We are now at 90 Fenchurch Street, London EC3M 4ST.
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