News and press releases

13 July 2017 - Legal practitioners will hear from leading experts on how to guard against cyber-attacks that threaten client confidentiality and learn how to negotiate the minefield of up-coming data protection rules, at this year’s Annual Bar and Young Bar Conference on Saturday 4 November.

13 July 2017 - "This repeal bill is the start of the mammoth task of transposing EU law on to the UK statute books," Chair of the Bar Andrew Langdon QC saidof the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill, published today.

10 July 2017 - Andrew Langdon QC, Chair of the Bar, says HMCTS needs to think again on Flexible Court Hours plan

5 July 2017 - Commenting on Lord Neuberger's speech published yesterday, Chair of the Bar Andrew Langdon QC has said that a complete rethink on the availability and sufficiency of legal aid is needed in order to prevent excluding those who cannot afford its protection.

3 July 2017 - Top lawyers head to Tower of London for awards night

23 June 2017 - A deal on rights for UK and EU citizens post-Brexit indicated by the Prime Minister today only solves part of the problem, the Bar Council Brexit Working Group has said.

23 June 2017 - A deal on rights for UK and EU citizens post-Brexit, indicated by the Prime Minister today, only solves part of the problem, the Bar Council Brexit Working Group has said today as it publishes The Brexit Papers: Third Edition, a plain-English analysis of the big legal issues around Brexit.

23 June 2017 - Brexit negotiators, who began formal talks with their EU counterparts this week, should tackle the trickiest issues first, senior barristers have said as the Bar Council announced the publication of The Brexit Papers: Third Edition.