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The Bar Standards Board (“BSB”) has launched a monitoring scheme to help barristers conduct a regulatory compliance “health-check”.
Launched in October, the programme builds on a pilot monitoring scheme that took place in 2008 among 35 chambers. It has now been extended to all chambers and sole practitioners, and aims to help practitioners and chambers achieve compliance with the Bar’s Code of Conduct and other regulations. 

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. 

FAMILY barrister Maria Scotland, of 7 Bedford Row Chambers, has been named the winner of the 14th Annual Sydney Elland Goldsmith Bar Pro Bono Award, which was presented at the 25th Annual Bar Conference on Saturday 6 November by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. The Bar Pro Bono Award is given to an individual barrister or set of chambers in recognition of outstanding commitment to pro bono work. 

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The MoJ has launched a consultation paper formally backing Lord Justice Jackson’s proposals for civil litigation funding reform. 

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Civil and family practitioners will bear the brunt of sweeping cuts to legal aid. 

Covering the period between May – December 2010, the BSB’s Education team has made significant progress in a number of key areas, which deserve mentioning at the end of the year. These are as follows: 

THE first ever National Pro Bono Centre (‘NPBC’) opened formally on Tuesday 19 October at its brand new premises at 48 Chancery Lane, in the heart of the legal community, followed by a celebration of pro bono at the Royal Courts of Justice. Guests included the Rt Hon Dominic Grieve QC MP, the Attorney General; Jonathan Djanogly MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice; and the Rt Hon Lord Judge, the Lord Chief Justice. 

Nicholas Green QC led a delegation of eight barristers to China from 13-16 September.