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Bar Council Annual Report 2004

Friday 8 April 2005 at 2:58 pm | In News | Post Comment

Revealed in the Bar Council Annual Report 2004

Only 300 barristers have chosen to undertake the necessary training to allow them to receive direct access to the bar from the public.

From 2008 students will not be allowed to call themselves ‘barrister’ until after training has been completed, viz after pupillage.

Unpaid fees to barristers in 2004 = £3.9m.

Complaints against barristers continue to fall 2004-667; 2003-685; 2002-743. During 2004 151 complaints were internal matters such as incomplete CPD.  About 102 resulted in individual barristers being disciplined.