The Bar Council will launch ‘Talk to Spot’, an anti-bullying and harassment app developed by a Silicon Valley tech company, later this month.
The app will help barristers talk through and record contemporaneously inappropriate behaviour at work. Whatever is discussed or recorded on Spot will remain unseen by anyone else unless the barrister decides to submit a report to their chambers, employer, the Bar Council or other bodies.
Richard Atkins QC, chair of the Bar Council, said the app was an ‘innovative use of technology which will allow barristers to report any inappropriate behaviour they experience, quickly and anonymously’.
In May, the International Bar Association report, ‘Us too?’, revealed ‘endemic’ levels of harassment and bullying in the profession globally. Last year, the Bar Council’s ‘Working lives’ report found an increase in reports of harassment and bullying.
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