In brief
Current vice chairman of the Bar, Timothy Dutton QC, has been elected chairman of the Bar. He will take up the post on 1 January 2008. Called to the Bar in 1979, Dutton, of Fountain Court Chambers, took silk in 1998. He sits as a recorder and his areas of practice include commercial, public law and professional negligence. He is one of the pioneers of advocacy training; establishing the Keble Advanced Course in Oxford. He was leader of the South Eastern Circuit from 2004–06, becoming heavily involved in legal aid issues more recently as chairman of the Bar’s Carter Response Group.
