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New Board members for the Bar Standards Board (2)

The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has today announced the appointment of three new lay Board members.

The new Board members are:

  • Lara Fielden;
  • Kathryn Stone OBE; and
  • Stephen Thornton CBE.

The Board is made up of 15 people: seven barristers, …

Research shows room for improvement in how law firms deal with complaints

  • Majority of firms (64%) think a good legal outcome is the top client priority, but only 33% of clients agree, instead most wanting regular communication (62%)
  • People with disabilities significantly less likely to be satisfied with the result of a
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Kenneth Armstrong wins major research fellowship to study post-Brexit regulation

Professor Kenneth Armstrong (Professor of European Law and Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS)) has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship for a project entitled: ‘The Brexit Effect: Convergence, Divergence and Variation in UK

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New research published to help inform Future Bar Training decisions

The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has today published two new pieces of research that are intended to provide a qualitative and quantitative evidence base to inform its current decision-making about the future training of barristers.

The two reports, which are …

LSB publishes revised regulatory performance assessment process

The Legal Services Board (LSB) today publishes its response to the consultation on its revised regulatory performance assessment approach and the revised final process documentation.

Legal Services Board Chief Executive Neil Buckley, said:

“The LSB’s work to hold legal …