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Barristers
- General Information
- 12,000 barristers paractise in England and Wales
- Controlled by - the General Council of the Bar
- Inn of court - Lincoln's Inn, Middle Temple, Inner Temple and Gray's Inn
- Training
- Law Degree (2-4 years, £9,000 a year, 8 key parts)
- Membership of an inn of court (attend the inn)
- Bar Proffessional Training Course (1 yr ft/ 2yr pt)
- 'Called to the Bar'
- Pupilage (2x6 months)
- Practise as a Barrister
- Non - Law Degree
- Common professional Examination, 1 year, law course,
- Membership of an Inn of court (attend the inn)
- Bar Professional Trainging Course
- 'Call the Bar'
- Pupilage (2x6 Months)
- Practise as a barrister
- Non-graduate mature student
- Common Professional Examination, 2 year law course
- Membership of an Inn of court
- Bar Professional Training Course
- 'Called to the Bar'
- Pupilage (2x6 months)
- Practise as a barrister
- Pupilage
- On the job training
- shadow a barrister
- after 6 month, can appear in court
- Paid a small salary
- Work
- Generally Self-employed
- Work in a small set of chambers
- Around 15-20 barristers
- employs a practice administrator
- difficult to find tenancy
- Many do a thrid 6 months
- Many now can work from home
- Chambers can be the best way to establush a sucessful practise
- Advocay
- tax
- Company law
- Paper Work
- Writing opinions
- Giving opinions
- drafting documents
- Direct Access
- it was only possible to hire a
barrister through a solicitor
- this created extra expense
- the Bar started to operate
a system call Bar Direct
- under which certain professions can contact a Barrister
- From 2004 the Bar granted direct access to everyone for civil cases
- not allowed
for criminal or
family work
- Cab rank rule
- Cannot turn down cases
- If it is an area of law they deal with
- rule does not apply when client approachs the barrister
- can turn case if it requires investigation
or support services they cannot provide
- Employed barristers
- Full rights of audience
- appear in any courts in england and wales
- Queen's Counsel
- Have to have practise for 10 years
- apply for queen's Counsel (QC)
- Known as taking silk
- Can take on more high profile cases
- All non QC's are called juniors
- until 2004 QCs were appointed
by the lord chancellor
- Critisied fro being secretive and a little sexist
- Less than 10% were women
- not representative for puralistis Britian
- it has an effect on the composition
of the judiciary as most judges are
chosen from QCs
- New Appointment System
- Independemt selection panel
- Pay £2500 fee
- Provide references and interviewed by members of the panel
- Then recommended to the Lord Chancellor
- The first appointment were made in 2006,
443 applied, 175 were appointed
- most notable fact is the number of
women who were successful
- only 33 female, 10 EM and 4 solicitors