Specialist Bar Associations and employed barristers should be better represented on the Bar Council, a new report concludes.
The recommendations come from a group, chaired by Sir Paul Kennedy, which was set up by the Bar in 2006 to consider whether changes introduced six years earlier had been effective. Election to the Bar Council should switch from single transferable vote to first past the post to prevent “slates” of candidates effectively blocking good independent and minority candidates from election to the council, the report says.
